RABIDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rabidly mean? 

• RABIDLY (adverb)
  The adverb RABIDLY has 2 senses:

1. in an extreme or fanatical manner

2. in the manner of an animal with rabies

  Familiarity information: RABIDLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RABIDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an extreme or fanatical manner

Pertainym:

rabid (marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea)

Derivation:

rabid (marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In the manner of an animal with rabies

Derivation:

rabid (of or infected by rabies)

 Context examples 

Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night—of the general state of mind in which I had indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told, in her own quiet way a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;—I pronounced judgment to this effect:—That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)