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Definition of Anxiously
1. Adverb. With anxiety or apprehension. "We watched anxiously"
Definition of Anxiously
1. adv. In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
Definition of Anxiously
1. Adverb. In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously. ¹
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Definition of Anxiously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anxiously
Literary usage of Anxiously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1882)
"The slightest mention of anything relative to Willoughby overpowered her in an
instant; and though her family were most anxiously attentive to her comfort, ..."
2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"The subject must be anxiously watched through its future stages. THE NEW
METEOROLOGICAL COUNCIL fI "'HE final stage of the labours of the Treasury Com- ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The Tractarian writers recognized this necessary order; they anxiously held aloof
from precipitating those effects, which they, nevertheless, ..."
4. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"I wait anxiously to hear from you. By the way, in case you think favorably of my
suggestion of an English article on the American press, did you notice a ..."
5. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... conduct tu the emperor—Napoleon's magnanimity—Wellington anxiously watches
... anxiously ..."
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