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ravenously, adv.|ˈræv(ə)nəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a ravenous manner.
1538Elyot, Lurco, to eate rauenously. 1611Cotgr., Gloutement, gluttonously, rauenously, greedily. a1715Burnet Own Time ii. (1724) I. 245 She..lived at a vast expence, and was ravenously covetous. 1791Boswell Johnson an. 1778, 15 Apr., Dr. Johnson..seemed to read it ravenously as if he devoured it. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. ix. (1879) 184 It began ravenously to tear a piece of carrion. 1907G. B. Shaw Major Barbara ii. 217 Shirley (looking at it ravenously but not touching it..). Ibid., (He turns to the table and attacks the meal ravenously). 1915W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xliv. 211 She could not have eaten more ravenously if she were starving. 1951C. S. Lewis Prince Caspian iii. 37 He would have made much more fuss about this if he had not by now been so ravenously hungry. |