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LOVINGLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

With fondness; with love

Example:

she spoke to her children fondly

Synonyms:

fondly; lovingly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

loving (feeling or showing love and affection)

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 Context examples: 

John Thornton was eating dinner when Buck dashed into camp and sprang upon him in a frenzy of affection, overturning him, scrambling upon him, licking his face, biting his hand—playing the general tom-fool, as John Thornton characterized it, the while he shook Buck back and forth and cursed him lovingly.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It had evidently been newly tuned and put in apple-pie order, but, perfect as it was, I think the real charm lay in the happiest of all happy faces which leaned over it, as Beth lovingly touched the beautiful black and white keys and pressed the bright pedals.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We were the admiration of Mrs. Gummidge and Peggotty, who used to whisper of an evening when we sat, lovingly, on our little locker side by side, “Lor! wasn't it beautiful!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It seemed to quite do away with any doubt, and, after kneeling beside the couch for a while and looking at her lovingly and long, he turned aside.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

How lovingly and fervently did it commend the pretty creature I had won, with all her artless graces best displayed, to my most gentle care!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I recollect, as the wind and water began to sound fainter in my ears, putting a short clause into my prayers, petitioning that I might grow up to marry little Em'ly, and so dropping lovingly asleep.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Of my walking so proudly and lovingly down the aisle with my sweet wife upon my arm, through a mist of half-seen people, pulpits, monuments, pews, fonts, organs, and church windows, in which there flutter faint airs of association with my childish church at home, so long ago.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)