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单词 desirously
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desirouslyadv.

/dɪˈzʌɪərəsli/
Etymology: < desirous adj. + -ly suffix2.
Now rare.
1.
a. With desire or longing; wishfully, eagerly, longingly. (Frequent in 16–17th centuries.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [adverb]
wilfullya1375
desirouslyc1400
desiderantlyc1450
appetentlya1479
desiringly1552
wantingly1893
c1400 Test. Love (1560) iii. 301/1 By which ye be draw desirously any thyng to wilne in coveitous manner.
?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iii. ii I beseche the humbly & desirously..that thou vouchesaue to speke to me thy selfe.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxxi. (title) Desirously deuising: by what meane to get peace.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 62 Which courtesie the countie desirously imbraced.
1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 368 Do they hasten to their Devotions..Or do they not rather come hither slowly, sit here uneasily, and depart desirously?
1836 W. Irving Astoria (1849) 37 It..had been..desirously contemplated by powerful associations and maternal governments.
b. With earnest desire, earnestly. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > willingness > [adverb] > heartily or zealously
with (also mid) all one's heartOE
greedilyc1200
affectuously?a1425
jealouslya1425
affectuallyc1425
wilfullyc1430
heartilya1450
zealously?1495
desirously1502
affectedly1582
affectionally1603
affectionatelya1716
boots and all1947
Messianically1976
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. ix. sig. t.iiii The confessour ought to be weil aduysed & hym enforme desyrously.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xxii. sig. ff.ii Ryght desyrously euery relegyous ought to kepe hym from the tellynge of lesynges.
1647 F. Bland Souldiers March 44 One short Observation more would I desirously commend to your Christian piety.
2. Of one's own desire or wish; willingly, readily. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > willingness > [adverb]
to goodeOE
thankc888
yernec888
lieflyc900
lovelyeOE
lustly971
willinglyOE
wilfullyc1000
with (also mid) heart and hand (also hands)OE
fainc1175
lustilya1225
lief1297
yfaȝea1300
blethelyc1300
goodlya1375
blelyc1380
willingc1384
bainc1400
acceptably1479
bainlya1500
cheerfully1523
towardly1523
desirously1531
pronely?1532
fainly1535
wilningly1597
bongre1598
libentiously1606
volently1614
propensely1648
easily1649
with (a) good grace1650
unreluctantly1655
with the best will (in the world)1814
unhesitatingly1829
unqualifyingly1841
unloathly1844
happily1889
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. xiii. sig. Xiv Suche one as desirously will participate with his frende all his good fortune.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxv. 205 The superfluities..with the wine, shall be drawen of the stomacke..but nature doth not so desirously drawe Ale.
1635 Earl of Strafford Let. 7 Apr. (1739) I. 399 If..I could have avoided meddling with him, I should not desirously have begun with a Gentleman..of so..turbulent a Disposition.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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