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eagerly, adv.|ˈiːgəlɪ|
[f. eager a. + -ly2.]
†1. Sharply, pungently, keenly; violently, harshly, severely. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xix. 376 Þanne welled water for wikked werkes, Egerlich ernynge out of mennes eyen. c1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 82 The more the synne is abhominable the egerlyer thei be tempted bi the deuelle. 1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xi. xxi, I am more aigrely tempested, than he was wyth the floodes of the see. 1553Bale Vocacyon in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 341 Within ii dayes after was I sick agayn, so egerly, etc. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 650 Raine, which frose so eagerly..that it seemed the depth of Winter had..been come in.
†b. to bear eagerly [tr. acide ferre, Vulg.; cf. also Lat. ægre ferre, which may have been sometimes confused]: to take amiss, be grieved at. Obs.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. iv. 9 Egreli or heuyly bere thou not in thi soule. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W.) i. xxxv. (1495) 29 a/1, Whyche thynge..Cypryan bare aygrely. 1598Chapman Iliad i. 99 Agamemnon rose, eagerly bearing all.
†2. Angrily, fiercely, bitterly, malignantly. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvi. 64 Egrelich he loked on me. c1450Lonelich Grail xxxvii. 698 A lyown that loked ful egerlye. 1609B. Jonson Sil. Wom. ii. ii. 81 Him she loves most, she will seeme to hate eagerliest.
3. Impetuously, swiftly. (Now only in phrases like eagerly pursuing, which approach sense 4).
1330R. Brunne Chron. 39 To þe cite Þei went egrely, & did þo kynges fle. 1375Barbour Bruce vi. 427 Douglas..full egirly Assalit. c1450Merlin x. 158 He..rode a-gein hym full egerly. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, iii. ii. 240 How eagerly ye follow my disgraces. 1655Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 23 Who were eagerly pursuing the Parthians.
4. In an eager manner; with impatient desire, promptitude, or alacrity.
1601Shakes. Jul. C. v. iii. 7 Brutus..hauing some aduantage on Octauius, Tooke it too eagerly. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) II. viii. 184 Eagerly hungry. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. 114 The oath of fidelity was eagerly taken by every order of the state. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 546 An unprincipled minister eagerly accepted the services of these mercenaries. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. x. (1880) 156 Thanksgivings..in which the people eagerly took part. |