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hotly, adv.|ˈhɒtlɪ|
Forms: see hot a.
[f. hot a. + -ly2.]
In a hot manner or degree.
1. With great heat, at a high temperature; so as to be ‘hot’ or pungent.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 178 The shadow had forsook them, And Titan..With burning eye did hotly overlook them. Ibid. 332 An oven that is stopp'd..Burneth more hotly. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 8 Gingerbread nuts..hotly spiced. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 93 Flame blazed hotly within her, in all her marrow abiding.
2. fig. With ‘heat’ or fervour; ardently, fervently, eagerly, passionately, keenly; angrily, excitedly.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxxiv. 101 They wolde haue you hotely to sette on your enemyes. 1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 74 Louyng hir..As whotly as euer. 1607Rowlands Diog. Lanth. 32 They hotly fell to wordes, And out in choller brake. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iii. (1840) 85 If he..was..so hotly pursued, he should certainly be discovered. 1874Green Short Hist. iii. §7. 148 The King hotly retorted that he was bound by no promise to a false traitor. 1876Swinburne Erechth. 1276 Whom his own crime tracks hotlier than a hound. |