单词 | compulsively |
释义 | compulsivelyadv. In a compulsive manner; by compulsion. 1. By means of, or in the way of, compulsion. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adverb] constrainingly1382 compulsively1605 compulsorily1633 coactivelya1641 compellingly1654 necessitatingly1654 coercively1661 compulsatorily1748 compellably1818 compulsatively1844 1605 Play Stucley 43 in Sch. Shaks. (1878) I. 159 If you give me her hand and not her heart. The one, I know you may, compulsively: The other, never but unwillingly. 1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 14 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Frenzy in the Tories, to hope to be ever able to..compulsively extinguish the Schism..of our Dissenters. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 413 The government compulsively contracted the press by their twenty stationary printers. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adverb] > under compulsion forcedly1548 constrainedly1549 enforcedly1579 coactly1581 compelledly1590 inforcively1604 compulsively1628 extortedly1640 compulsatively1844 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxvi. sig. T6v If wee doe ill compulsiuely, wee are cleered by the violence. 1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 489 To have suffered even compulsively its yoke and its contempt. 3. In accordance with a psychological compulsion (see compulsion n. 2); in a compulsive manner (see compulsive adj.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adverb] > compulsion compulsively1937 the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [adverb] strikingly1752 fascinatingly1773 interestingly1811 engrossingly1835 absorbingly1836 rivetingly1849 arrestingly1882 fruitily1918 intriguingly1922 grippingly1934 compulsively1966 1937 K. Horney Neurotic Personality vii. 128 Such a change may sometimes take grotesque forms, as in persons who after failing in some love affair start to eat so compulsively that they gain twenty to thirty pounds in a short time. 1955 D. W. Maurer in Pubn. Amer. Dial. Soc. XXIV. 5 The teen-agers who almost compulsively identify with this semicriminal subculture. 1962 Listener 6 Sept. 350/1 Lawrence..was often compulsively autobiographical in his writing. 1966 Listener 10 Feb. 214/3 In The Fight for Barbara author and subject come too close for full artistic success, though it is compulsively readable. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < adv.1605 |
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