ZEALOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zealously mean? 

• ZEALOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb ZEALOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a zealous manner

  Familiarity information: ZEALOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZEALOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a zealous manner

Context example:

she worked zealously to raise funds for the literacy project

Pertainym:

zealous (marked by active interest and enthusiasm)

 Context examples 

In the promotion of this object she was zealously active, as far as her ability reached; and missed no opportunity of projecting weddings among all the young people of her acquaintance.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He zealously undertook to do so, and to intercept any newspaper through which it might, without such precautions, reach him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It had then seemed the object nearest her heart, that Dr Shirley, the rector, who for more than forty years had been zealously discharging all the duties of his office, but was now growing too infirm for many of them, should be quite fixed on engaging a curate; should make his curacy quite as good as he could afford, and should give Charles Hayter the promise of it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)