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virulently, adv.|ˈvɪrjʊləntlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a virulent manner; with virulence or violence: a. Of actions, language, etc.
1599Broughton's Lett. xi. 38 The raising of whose bones, more virulently, then truly, you obiect to this our Apostaticall land. 1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World Wond. 274 There was neuer yet controuersie in Christian religion so stoutly, so vehemently, nor so virulently canuased and ventilated. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. §101 Which, it may be, made the other to be the more virulently remembered. 1709Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 306 Sacheverell..levell'd his..Anathemas most virulently against him. 1783Ld. Hailes Anc. Chr. Ch. ii. 23 The device of forging acts of Pilate, in which Christ was virulently defamed. 1816Scott Bl. Dwarf iv, Sentiments so virulently misanthropic. 1856Miss Mulock J. Halifax xxvi, Catholics were hunted down both by law and by public opinion, as virulently as Protestant nonconformists.
b. Of poisons, diseases, etc.
1632Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry iii. i, This potion that hath wrought so virulently! 1858Copland Dict. Pract. Med. III. ii. 1341/2 The..effects of the malady having become thus virulently contagious. 1867H. Macmillan Bible Teach. vi. 112 Though some kinds are virulently poisonous, yet a large number are highly useful to man. 1876Jrnl. R. Geog. Soc. XLVI. 54 Several are pitted with small-pox, which ranged virulently..about ten years ago. |