| 释义 |
desirously, adv. Now rare.|dɪˈzaɪərəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. With desire or longing; wishfully, eagerly, longingly. (Frequent in 16–17th centuries.)
c1400Test. Love iii. (1560) 301/1 By which ye be draw desirously any thyng to wilne in coveitous manner. 1504W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. ii, I beseche the humbly & desirously..that thou vouchesaue to speke to me thy selfe. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. lxxi. title, Desirously deuising: by what meane to get peace. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 62 Which courtesie the Countie desirously embraced. 1692South Serm. (1697) I. 326 Do they hasten to their Devotions..Or do they not rather come hither slowly, sit here uneasily and depart desirously? 1836W. Irving Astoria (1849) 37 It..had been..desirously contemplated by powerful associations and maternal governments.
†b. With earnest desire, earnestly. Obs.
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iv. ix. 192 The confessour ought to be well aduysed and hym enfourme desyrously. Ibid. iv. xxii. 291 Righte desyrously euery relygyous ought for to kepe hym from the tellynge of lesynges. 1647F. Bland Souldiers March 44 One short Observation more would I desirously commend to your Christian piety.
†2. Of one's own desire or wish; willingly, readily. Obs.
1531Elyot Gov. ii. xiii, Suche one as desirously will participate with his frende all his good fortune. 1589Cogan Haven Health ccxv. (1636) 233 The superfluities..with the wine, shall be drawne off the stomack..but nature doth not so desirously draw Ale. 1635Earl of Strafford Lett. (1739) I. 399 If..I could have avoided meddling with him, I should not desirously have begun with a Gentleman..of so..turbulent a Disposition. |