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ARDENTLY

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an ardent manner

Example:

the spirit of God knew very well that there was a deeper question to be settled before there could be the intervention in power that was so ardently desired

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

ardent (characterized by intense emotion)

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 Context examples: 

Mr. Creakle then made a speech, through Tungay, in which he thanked Steerforth for asserting (though perhaps too warmly) the independence and respectability of Salem House; and which he wound up by shaking hands with Steerforth, while we gave three cheers—I did not quite know what for, but I supposed for Steerforth, and so joined in them ardently, though I felt miserable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Pitiless as you have been towards me, I now see compassion in your eyes; let me seize the favourable moment and persuade you to promise what I so ardently desire.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I ardently desired to understand them, and bent every faculty towards that purpose, but found it utterly impossible.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was possessed by a maddening rage when I thought of him, and desired and ardently prayed that I might have him within my grasp to wreak a great and signal revenge on his cursed head.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It is true, he seldom came to see me, for although he ardently desired to relieve the sufferings of every human creature, he did not wish to be present at the agonies and miserable ravings of a murderer.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I conjectured, therefore, that he found on the paper signs for speech which he understood, and I ardently longed to comprehend these also; but how was that possible when I did not even understand the sounds for which they stood as signs?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)