vehementlyadv.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cci^v/2 A matrone a certeyn woman kissed his honde, wherof he was tempted vehemently in his flesshe.

a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) iii. f. sig. cccxii/1 They neuer haue shoes, but yf it be a lytyll in wynter whan it is colde vehemently, or whan they be seke.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cvii^v In Fraunce this yere the people dyed..so vehemently that in the Cytie of Parys dyed..ouer .LM. people.

1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 18 This [unguent]..taketh awaye superfluous fleshe, and doth vehemently excicate & drie.

1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. F3^v Two only that were the conueiers of him, sickned vehemently and one of them died.

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. iv. 56 Vomiting is not very dangerous..unless it hold the Patient vehemently.

1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. iv. 172 Whom Wickedness, the most extreme Evil, doth not only affect, but even vehemently infect.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Womb This tumour returned again, and..in three days it became vehemently enraged.

1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland I. p. xix If any of the subjects of the one prince come to the kingdom of the other under safe conduct, and be so vehemently sick, that he cannot return into his country again before the day of the expiration of his safe conduct.

1849 Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee) 17 Apr. It being vehemently cold and rainy, he happened upon a poor cottage, and desired a lodging or hay loft to stay in.

1872 Ann. Rep. Board Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1868 242 This mass of particles is vehemently heated by the passage of current.

1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald Let. 14 Sept. in L. Miller Lett. from Lost Generation (1991) 255 Nothing would disappoint her so vehemently as success.

1945 E. Bowen Demon Lover 126 His manners of walking, talking and standing, though all to be recognized at a distance, were vehemently impersonal.

?1532 Ordynaunces Emperour f. xxviii^v That none attaynt or by informacyon precedent vehemently suspect of heresye or errour in the fayth or of the sacramentes and ordynaunces of the churche, shall not [etc.].

1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xv. f. xxxvii^v Such thynges.., as maketh hym not sleyghtly but very vehemently suspected.

1607 G. Blackwell Large Exam. Lambeth 6 If by obeying the Pope it may be vehemently presumed, that great trouble will ensue to the state of the Church.

1684 London Gaz. No. 1938/4 He is vehemently suspected to be concerned in these Robberies and Burglaries following.

1722 J. Crawford Case of inoculating Small-pox Consider'd 23 Dr. Dolhonde's Relations carry so much improbability with them, that I cannot help vehemently suspecting his Story of Captain Hussart.

1793 S. Pegge Life Robert Grosseteste 78 The bishop..sent away two monks..to the monastery, to be punished, one for adultery, the other vehemently suspected of fornication.

1852 R. Choate in Wks. (1862) I. viii. 178 Mr. So-and-so has got a first-rate letter in his breeches-pocket, and Mr. So-and-so is vehemently believed to have one in his.

1890 Lucifer May 192 Our friend is inclined to vehemently suspect you of being the vile enchanter who has worked him woe.

1955 G. de Santillana Crime of Galileo vi. 131 Persons whose intentions were vehemently suspect.

1977 Dante Stud. No. 95. 120 Bezold's..attempt to present conjunctionist astrology as..something vehemently suspect to the ecclesiastical authorities.

1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. lxv And marke I praye you what an Oratoure he is and how vehemently he persuadeth it.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 97 Polidore had no good opinion of king Iohn, and therfore wryteth very vehemently against him in his History.

1612 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Earl of Eglinton (1885) 610 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4575) XLIV. 1 The Deputies of the Religion have very vehemently protested against these proceedings.

1665 J. Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica Addr. Royal Soc. sig. a4 Reckoning it a great instance of Piety and devout Zeal, vehemently to declaim against Reason and Philosophy.

a1721 M. Prior Cromwell & Porter 116, in Wks. (1907) II. 265 I did actually fight in the field, Preached loudly in the Church, and talked vehemently in the Parliament.

1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 76 I could shew how vehemently they have contended for Names.

1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 14 The slave-owners..insist vehemently upon the mental and physical inferiority of the blacks.

1885 H. Taylor Autobiogr. I. 92 It is not long since I heard a Populationist vehemently reproach a poor but very respectable married gentleman for the sin of having nine children.

1922 M. Widdemer Minister of Grace 93 He..began to talk vehemently in a broken English.

1948 William & Mary Q. 3rd Ser. 5 311 The Americans..objected to the Townshend Duties almost as vehemently as they had to the Stamp Act.

2000 Guardian 17 Aug. ii. 7/5 Jenkins protested vehemently that the stuff had been planted.

2011 New Yorker 23 May 37/2 It is right up there with..global climate change, still vehemently denied by the scientific illiterati.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxxix Wherewith being wehemently moued,..he began more and more to be confirmed.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 54 It was alwayes of me maruellous vehemently and earnestly desiered.

1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie ii. ii. 141 Doe you think, his heart is not vehemently prompted to deifie his Saint?

1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) ii. 36 That they did vehemently, and out of all measure aspire to that Chair.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. vii. 54 For a week together, she was vehemently intent upon being allowed to visit England.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. viii. 277 It requires a high degree of improbability to prevent the greater part of mankind from believing what they vehemently wish.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. ii. 77 Preussen was a vehemently Heathen country.

1913 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 215/1 Those who most vehemently dislike..any plan for the strengthening of our land forces.

1969 Daily Tel. 13 Nov. 14/3 People who are most vehemently against something are often the very same people who are unconsciously most inclined to it themselves.

1999 D. F. Wallace Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 23 They meet and fall vehemently in love.

2016 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 1 June 28 [He] said he had met many people in Northern Ireland who were vehemently anti-Europe.