FERVENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fervently mean? 

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

1. with passionate fervor

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FERVENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With passionate fervor

Synonyms:

fervently; fervidly; fierily

Context example:

a fierily opinionated book

Pertainym:

fervent (characterized by intense emotion)

 Context examples 

I only knew that I was fervently in earnest, when I felt the rest and peace of having Agnes near me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Those who hurried up heard him cursing Buck, and he cursed him long and fervently, and softly and lovingly.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

My feet were stinging from the bite of the frost, and I hoped fervently that the sun would shine.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was my temper to avoid a crowd and to attach myself fervently to a few.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I sincerely, deeply, fervently longed to do what was right; and only that.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Yes, he will—I'm sure he will!" she exclaimed fervently, as she drew him to her and kissed and hugged him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Fervently hoping that he would get out before she did, Amy utterly ignored the basket at her feet, and congratulating herself that she had on her new traveling dress, returned the young man's greeting with her usual suavity and spirit.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Having never even fancied herself in love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and, from her age and disposition, greater steadiness than most first attachments often boast; and so fervently did she value his remembrance, and prefer him to every other man, that all her good sense, and all her attention to the feelings of her friends, were requisite to check the indulgence of those regrets which must have been injurious to her own health and their tranquillity.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He kept me waiting so long, that I fervently hoped the Club would fine him for being late.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"It's up to me to make good," he would murmur fervently.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)