franticlyadv.
/ˈfrantᵻkli/, U.S. /ˈfræn(t)əkli/ = frantically adv.
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the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adverb]
rageously1486
violently1518
franticly1549
ragingly1549
wildly1593
turbulently1602
impotently1621
transportedly1652
like wild1674
frantically1749
madly1756
seethingly1887
like crazy1924
the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adverb]
strongeOE
hotOE
unsoftOE
snellya1000
stitha1000
stronglyOE
woodlyc1000
hatelyOE
unridelyc1175
wood1297
mainlyc1300
dreec1330
spackly?c1335
brothelyc1340
bremelya1375
fiercelya1375
violentlya1387
throlyc1390
roughlya1400
snarplya1400
unrekenlya1400
dreichlyc1400
ranklyc1400
witherlyc1400
maliciouslya1450
fervently1480
roidlyc1480
thrafully1535
vehement?1541
toughly1589
sickerly1596
vengeously1599
virulently1599
rageously1600
ragefullya1631
churlishly1657
improbously1657
rampantly1698
fierce1771
savagerous1832
fulgurantly1873
franticly1883
1549 J. Leland Laboryouse Journey sig. D iv Them that so frantycklye on their ale benches do prattle.
1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. G1v He Lion like..Frantiquely wrends and byts the wouen toyle.
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis ix. 190 Hopelesse, her hated mansion she eschues: And frantickly, her brothers flight persues.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 8 The one is gloomy and ferociously distracted; the other is merrily, but perhaps not less franticly mad.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 197 She cried thus franticly, to ears which she was taught to believe were stopped by death.
1883 Harper's Mag. Apr. 687/2 Everything here was..franticly scrubbed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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