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1836 W. Dobson tr. F. Schleiermacher Introd. Dialogues Plato i. 51 To excite their minds emotionally—this was their whole object.

1874 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David IV. Ps. xcii. 1. 263 It is good emotionally for it is pleasant to the heart.

1933 Mod. Psychologist Nov. 282/1 You are physically mature enough to have and to enjoy sexual relations, but emotionally you're just a boy of ten or twelve.

1971 R. M. Keesing & F. M. Keesing New Perspectives Cultural Anthropol. 51 In popular usage it [sc. the term race] is emotionally charged and imprecise.

1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 14 Sept. 5/1 Emotionally disturbed children are acutely vulnerable and they need all the help and assistance we can provide.

1849 N. Brit. Rev. Aug. 554 What he had treated emotionally in his sonnets he set himself to treat more intellectually and practically in various prose dissertations.

1866 Church Times 20 Feb. The Rinderpest is emotionally described..as an affliction.

1934 P. G. Wodehouse Thank you, Jeeves xiv. 203 The heart was still sinking. And when I hear him snort emotionally in the darkness it touched a new low.

1963 A. Baraka Blues People iv. 40 The ‘praise nights,’ or ‘prayer meetings,’ were also the only times when the Negro felt he could express himself as freely and emotionally as possible.

2002 J. McGahern That they may face Rising Sun (2003) 290 ‘He's perfect. Patrick couldn't have done it a whit better,’ Jamesie said emotionally.