PASSIONATELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does passionately mean? 

• PASSIONATELY (adverb)
  The adverb PASSIONATELY has 2 senses:

1. with passion

2. in a stormy or violent manner

  Familiarity information: PASSIONATELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASSIONATELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With passion

Context example:

she kissed him passionately

Pertainym:

passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a stormy or violent manner

Synonyms:

passionately; stormily; turbulently

 Context examples 

"But you do not answer," Madge continued passionately.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

As for himself, he loved beauty passionately, and the joy of serving her was to him sufficient wage.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“God bless you!” cried the prisoner passionately.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Oh, the river!” she cried passionately.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Harriet Smith might think herself not unworthy of being peculiarly, exclusively, passionately loved by Mr. Knightley. She could not.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“I give not the pip of an apple for king or for noble,” cried the serf passionately.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"It's always so. Amy has all the fun and I have all the work. It isn't fair, oh, it isn't fair!" cried Jo passionately.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Sometimes being uprooted can be positive, for it makes us reexamine our decisions and allows us either to passionately  recommit to our original goals or leave them and make new ones.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)