animatedlyadv.
/ˈanᵻmeɪtᵻdli/, U.S. /ˈænəˌmeɪdᵻdli/ In an animated manner, with animation; vividly, vivaciously.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > [adverb]
raisedly1591
animatedly1783
feverously1829
excitedly1852
ebulliently1887
effervescingly1898
1783 J. Scott Let. Right Honourable C. J. Fox 26 It was on the subject of this refusal that the Vizier..dispatched the very poetical chapter of lamentations, with which you have so animatedly warmed the feelings of the House.
a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 158 That beautiful variety of..love, and reverence, which are so animatedly expressed in the figures.
1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 40 806 Animatedly descriptive and devotional.
1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career I. xvii. 252 Watching the ship's progress animatedly.
1920 E. Ferber Half Portions iii. 101 She would come to the table..and talk animatedly to Hugo while he ate his dinner and eyed her appreciatively.
1967 E. Wilson Jrnl. in Sixties: Last Jrnl. (1993) 636 He had brought me a handful of offprints, talked even more animatedly than usual.
2004 Times (Nexis) 29 May (Weekend Suppl.) 20 He talks quickly, gesturing animatedly and then stops suddenly, as if overcome by shyness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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