DEVOTEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does devotedly mean? 

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

1. with devotion

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEVOTEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With devotion

Context example:

He served his master devotedly

Pertainym:

devoted (zealous in devotion or affection)

 Context examples 

Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had, I knew, been very genuinely and devotedly attached to his father; and to lose him, and at such a time, was a bitter blow to him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Dearest Agnes! Whom I so respect and honour—whom I so devotedly love!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is he who sees and worships your merit the strongest, who loves you most devotedly, that has the best right to a return.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and devotedly attached to me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had no gentler feeling towards anyone than towards the pretty creature who had been my playmate, and whom I have always been persuaded, and shall always be persuaded, to my dying day, I then devotedly loved.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)