impetuouslyadv.
In an impetuous manner; with great impetus or force; violently, vehemently; with sudden or rash energy.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adverb] > with rapid or sudden violence
brathlya1300
angerly?a1425
impetuously1485
headilya1500
vehemently1538
angardlyc1540
furiouslya1577
rank1590
wildly1593
amok1838
torrentially1882
the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impetuosity > [adverb]
impetuously1485
in flagrant blood1614
thick and threefold1627
head-foremost1697
hot-headedly1777
head first1839
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. eviijv/2 The ryuer..renneth so Inpytuously as a quarel out of an arbalastre.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos x. 39 A clowde..decended impetuously vpon the flote.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xi. sig. Z1v [They] round about him flocke impetuously.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 70 For Motion the Spirits move impetuously down the nervous filaments.
1834 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (1837) I. ix. 141 They are impetuously led on to wrong acts.
1871 W. H. Ainsworth Tower Hill i. i Henry rushed impetuously into the room.
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