Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a vehement manner; with great force or violence; urgently; forcibly; ardently; passionately.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a vehement manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a vehement manner; expressing with a strong or forceful attitude.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a vehement manner

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word vehemently.

Examples

  • Richard, what I oppose vehemently is geo-centric political Zionism.

    Matthew Yglesias » Getting Closer to Nowhere 2009

  • For republicans, the most important right is the right to remain vehemently ignorant.

    Wonk Room » Glenn Beck Attacks Smart Grid As Socialist Plot To Steal Our Thermostats 2009

  • My daughter vehemently is against seafood because of taste, so one day after my routine Salmon Burger purchase and on a visit to her house, I took her a half dozen wrapped in a clear baggy and she thought they were hamburgers patties.

    Blueberries? 2007

  • My problem with people jumping up and down on anyone they disagree with vehemently is that the attack becomes personal instead of ideological.

    Upcoming elections - thoughts? 2006

  • What I wish to say here, and vehemently, is that we in the Una Storia Segreta project disdain and condemn your attempt to justify the Bush administrationÂ’s trampling of the Constitution by once again slandering Japanese Americans.

    IsThatLegal? 2004

  • For the moment my pulse ceased beating, and then, knowing that the time had come when I must either do or die, I called vehemently to those who were holding the ropes (some thirty men) to let go at once, and made gestures signifying danger, and that there would be mischief if they held on longer.

    Erewhon 2003

  • It was characteristic of Calvin that he called vehemently for toleration from the Emperor, Charles V, and yet caused the death of a Spanish physician, Servetus, whose views happened to be at variance with his own!

    Heroes of Modern Europe Alice Birkhead

  • For the moment my pulse ceased beating, and then, knowing that the time had come when I must either do or die, I called vehemently to those who were holding the ropes (some thirty men) to let go at once, and made gestures signifying danger, and that there would be mischief if they held on longer.

    Erewhon; or, Over the range 1910

  • A north wind blew them vehemently from the English coast.

    Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

  • Once she fancied she discerned a form flying ahead of her, leaping from cross tie to cross tie to avoid the water, but when she called vehemently, only the sound of her own voice broke the silence.

    At the Mercy of Tiberius 1872

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.