Definition of Apprehensively

1. Adverb. With anxiety or apprehension. "We watched anxiously"

Exact synonyms: Anxiously, Uneasily
Partainyms: Anxious, Apprehensive, Uneasy

Definition of Apprehensively

1. adv. In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.

Definition of Apprehensively

1. Adverb. in an apprehensive manner; with apprehension ¹

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Definition of Apprehensively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apprehensively

appreciators
appreciatory
apprecihate
apprehend
apprehended
apprehender
apprehenders
apprehending
apprehends
apprehensibility
apprehensible
apprehensibly
apprehension
apprehensions
apprehensive
apprehensively (current term)
apprehensiveness
apprentice
apprentice(a)
apprenticeage
apprenticed
apprenticehood
apprenticehoods
apprenticelike
apprentices
apprenticeship
apprenticeships
apprenticing
apprentisage
apprentise

Literary usage of Apprehensively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"The moral dangers inherent in his system, of which in later years Walter Map speaks so apprehensively, had made their appearance before 1166, as may be seen ..."

2. Ethics, General and Special by Owen Aloysius Hill (1920)
"Agents of the second class work unto an end apprehensively or with knowledge, ... Agents of the third class work apprehensively, with motion of their own, ..."

3. The works of Thomas Goodwin by Thomas Goodwin (1864)
"Indeed, it is the power of God really that doth enable to believe, but it is not the power of God apprehensively, viz., that I see I am clothed with such a ..."

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