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intensely, adv.|ɪnˈtɛnslɪ|
[f. intense a. + -ly2.]
In an intense degree or manner.
1. In a very high degree; very greatly, strongly, or deeply; violently, vehemently; extremely.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxi. 161 They intensly heat the aire above their surface. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 53 note, Intensely cold Anights. 1712Addison Spect. No. 303 ⁋1 There are some which glow more intensely, and dart a stronger Light than others. 1805Wordsw. Prelude xii. 177, I loved whate'er I saw: nor lightly loved, But most intensely. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 560 Sticky, slippery mud, intensely sticky, and intensely slippery.
b. With intense feeling, expression, etc.
1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. vi. x. 93 Titian will only paint a fan or a wristband intensely, never a flower. 1886E. Dowden Shelley I. ii. 41 He lived intensely in his own imaginings, wise or idle, beautiful or feebly extravagant.
†2. With strenuous effort, attention, or exertion; eagerly, earnestly, intently. Obs. or merged in 1.
a1614Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 112 To doe even that, so intensly, as we neglect our office of Society. 1659Milton Rupt. Commw. Wks. (1851) 400, I began to consider more intensly thereon than hitherto I have bin wont. 1743J. Davidson æneid iv. 35 Trojans intensely ply their work. 1856Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. iii. 84 He had had his thoughts intensely fixed for a considerable time on an..imaginary object. |