单词 | desirously |
释义 | desirouslyadv. 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. 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. 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). < adv.c1400 |
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