Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With love or affection; affectionately.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With love; affectionately.
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- adverb In a
loving manner,affectionately .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with fondness; with love
Etymologies
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Examples
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To those who haven't spent much time in, and I use the term lovingly, the fly-over states, it may seem that 'Rock' is as out-of-place in Omaha as a cruise ship.
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He has what I call lovingly 'a dancer's instinct 'toward gesture and expressionism.
Playbill.com : News 2009
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He has what I call lovingly 'a dancer's instinct 'toward gesture and expressionism.
Playbill.com : News 2009
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He has what I call lovingly 'a dancer's instinct 'toward gesture and expressionism.
Playbill.com : News 2009
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Carl's Jr is the only burger franchise that escaped from the book Fast Food Nation rather unmuckraked (I use that term lovingly).
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There remains also a copy of "Don Quixote" in French, lovingly inscribed by Mr. Jefferson to my grandmother.
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911
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When they had descended and Heidi entered Peter's hut, the grandmother called lovingly to her: "Have you come again, child?"
Heidi (Gift Edition) Johanna Spyri 1864
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One does not drink of the cup of Fate "lovingly" -- without bloody sweat!
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917
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Arnie's Place was luxurious, with wooden nooks for its machines to rest in lovingly.
The Dark Side Of Arcading silmaril 2005
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He always referred to her lovingly and with tears in his eyes when he spoke in the chapel in his role as a counselor to his fellow inmates.
The Christmas Thief Mary Higgins Clark 2004
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