FEELINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feelingly mean? 

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

1. with great feeling

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEELINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With great feeling

Context example:

she spoke feelingly of her early childhood

Antonym:

unfeelingly (without compassionate feelings)

 Context examples 

I remembered the time when Minnie was a young and pretty girl; and I was glad she remembered it too, so feelingly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She spoke with great agitation; and Emma very feelingly replied, That can be no reason for your being exposed to danger now.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“I hope I am not less so now,” she replied, very feelingly; “but indeed I cannot go. If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to be right.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"No," replied Elinor, most feelingly sensible of every fresh circumstance in favour of Lucy's veracity; "I remember he told us, that he had been staying a fortnight with some friends near Plymouth."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I speak feelingly.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

His acquittal was complete, his friendship warmly honoured, a lively interest excited for his friend, and his description of the fine country about Lyme so feelingly attended to by the party, that an earnest desire to see Lyme themselves, and a project for going thither was the consequence.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He listened with the utmost attention, and said, feelingly, when I had done: I am rejoiced at it, sir!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“There is hardly any desiring to refresh such a memory as that,”—said Mr. Knightley, feelingly; and for a moment or two he had done.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Marianne assented most feelingly to the remark; and her mother was led by it to an enumeration of Colonel Brandon's injuries and merits, warm as friendship and design could unitedly dictate.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Without suffering any romantic alarm, in the consideration of their daughter's long and lonely journey, Mr. and Mrs. Morland could not but feel that it might have been productive of much unpleasantness to her; that it was what they could never have voluntarily suffered; and that, in forcing her on such a measure, General Tilney had acted neither honourably nor feelingly—neither as a gentleman nor as a parent.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)