ARDENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ardently mean? 

• ARDENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb ARDENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an ardent manner

  Familiarity information: ARDENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARDENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an ardent manner

Context example:

the spirit of God knew very well that there was a deeper question to be settled before there could be the intervention in power that was so ardently desired

Pertainym:

ardent (characterized by intense emotion)

 Context examples 

I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

So I thanked her ardently for this mark of her affection, and for all her other kindnesses towards me; and after a tender good night, she took her nightcap into my bedroom.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But Challenger had some unwieldy stuff which he ardently desired to take with him, and one particular package, of which I may not speak, which gave us more labor than any.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Never," I thought; and ardently I wished to die.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But they were supremely interested, for every little while they ardently took sides, and sometimes all were talking at once, till their voices surged back and forth in waves of sound like mimic thunder-rolls in the confined space.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In seeing Bingley, her thoughts naturally flew to her sister; and, oh! how ardently did she long to know whether any of his were directed in a like manner.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I knew from her own lips that she regarded herself as the innocent cause of his errors, and as owing him a great debt she ardently desired to pay.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When I thought of him I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed, and I ardently wished to extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)