FONDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fondly mean? 

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

1. with fondness; with love

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FONDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With fondness; with love

Synonyms:

fondly; lovingly

Context example:

she spoke to her children fondly

Pertainym:

fond (extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent)

 Context examples 

By this time he had sat down: he had laid the picture on the table before him, and with his brow supported on both hands, hung fondly over it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And soon afterwards, on the second boy's violently pinching one of the same lady's fingers, she fondly observed, "How playful William is!"

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He came away, fondly looking back over his shoulder at her as he came.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mr. Rushworth had set off early with the great news for Sotherton; and she had fondly hoped for such an immediate eclaircissement as might save him the trouble of ever coming back again.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Her father fondly replied, “Ah! my dear, I wish you would not make matches and foretell things, for whatever you say always comes to pass. Pray do not make any more matches.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When I loved Dora—fondly, Agnes, as you know— “Yes!” she cried, earnestly. “I am glad to know it!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And could not such words from her whom I fondly prized before every other gift of fortune suffice to chase away the fiend that lurked in my heart?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She was left with limited means, but with some very remarkable old Spanish jewellery of silver and curiously cut diamonds to which she was fondly attached—too attached, for she refused to leave them with her banker and always carried them about with her.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I am a married man, and have been so for three years. During that time my wife and I have loved each other as fondly and lived as happily as any two that ever were joined. We have not had a difference, not one, in thought or word or deed. And now, since last Monday, there has suddenly sprung up a barrier between us, and I find that there is something in her life and in her thought of which I know as little as if she were the woman who brushes by me in the street. We are estranged, and I want to know why.

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

With much labor we got our things up the steps, and then, looking back, took one last long survey of that strange land, soon I fear to be vulgarized, the prey of hunter and prospector, but to each of us a dreamland of glamour and romance, a land where we had dared much, suffered much, and learned much—OUR land, as we shall ever fondly call it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)