LOVINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lovingly mean? 

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

1. with fondness; with love

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOVINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With fondness; with love

Synonyms:

fondly; lovingly

Context example:

she spoke to her children fondly

Pertainym:

loving (feeling or showing love and affection)

 Context examples 

But I had no other intention than to speak to her tenderly and lovingly about our home-affairs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You have that, for Mars, based in your romantic sector, will lovingly signal Mercury, linking your house of truelove to your marriage house.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But the people remembered him lovingly, and said to one another: Oz was always our friend.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

It interested me, even at that moment, to see, that, whilst the face of white set passion worked convulsively over the bowed head, the hands tenderly and lovingly stroked the ruffled hair.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He handled the sack lovingly, and with due appreciation of its preciousness carried it out to his sled.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

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)

Meg drew her low chair beside her mother's, and with a little interruption in either lap, the two women rocked and talked lovingly together, feeling that the tie of motherhood made them more one than ever.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The fat, red-faced gleeman, the listening group, the archer with upraised finger beating in time to the music, and the huge sprawling figure of Hordle John, all thrown into red light and black shadow by the flickering fire in the centre—memory was to come often lovingly back to it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I took the little baby in my arms when it was awake, and nursed it lovingly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her husband involuntarily groaned as she turned to him and said lovingly: Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)