apprehensivelyadv.
In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension.† 1. By laying hold. Obsolete.† 3. So as to be apprehended, intelligibly. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > [adverb] > by laying hold
apprehendingly1583
apprehensively1656
1656 J. Trapp Comm. Rom. iii. 29 Men are said to be justified..apprehensively by faith.
2. With anticipation, esp. of danger; with fear as to what may be coming.
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the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [adverb]
fearfully1592
apprehensively1753
heart-in-mouth1858
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxxii. 224 What think you..made me write so apprehensively?
1828 R. Southey Epist. to A. Cunningham in Poet. Wks. (1838) III. 315 The face Composed and apprehensively intent Upon the necessary operation About to be perform'd.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > [adverb]
atreet1340
intelligibly1564
discernibly1645
sensible1659
apprehensiblya1682
apprehensively1692
comprehensibly1755
pronouncedly1785
cognizably1855
digestibly1879
understandably1921
1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 14 The Quality considered in it self, to speak apprehensively, was very Savage.
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