heatedly en · ADV
Etymology
Etymology tree English heated Middle English -ly English -ly English heatedly From heated + -ly.
Meanings
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In a heated manner.
Pungent sweat and heatedly trodden grass, fumes of tea and porter, thrum of hooves from the paddock, the strikings-up and dyings-down of the band all fused into an extreme for Antonia, whose own senses, boastful, stood up to it.
1955, Elizabeth Bowen, chapter II, in A World of Love, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, part I, page 40:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most heatedly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more heatedly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |