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单词 compulsively
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compulsivelyadv.

/kəmˈpʌlsɪvli/
Etymology: < compulsive adj.
In a compulsive manner; by compulsion.
1. By means of, or in the way of, compulsion.
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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.
2. Under compulsion, on compulsion. Obsolete.
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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.).
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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).
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