单词 | madly in love |
释义 | > as lemmasmadly in love a. Passionately, fervently (cf. quot. 1600 at sense 1). Frequently in madly in love. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adverb] rageously1486 violently1518 franticly1549 ragingly1549 wildly1593 turbulently1602 impotently1621 transportedly1652 like wild1674 frantically1749 madly1756 seethingly1887 like crazy1924 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) vii. 187 They are all madly keen to dance too. 1767 J. Boswell Let. 30 Mar. (1924) I. 108 I was so madly in love as to think of marrying her. 1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein I. 13 My lieutenant..is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory. 1880 O. C. Stone Few Months New Guinea iv. 55 The natives..seem madly fond of kuku [sc. tobacco], and would pawn their very clothes for it if they wore any. 1888 W. S. Gilbert Trial by Jury 12 I love him—I love him—with fervour increasing, I worship and madly adore. 1924 A. Christie Man in Brown Suit ii. 19 I could never marry a man unless I loved him madly. 1959 Guardian 23 Dec. 4/5 Parents play whist and ‘beetle’ madly throughout the winter. 1974 M. Cecil Heroines in Love v. 151 Upper-class heroines..were never ‘in love’, always ‘madly in love’. 1984 B. Reid So Much Love iii. 25 I fell madly in love with him. < as lemmas |
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