VEHEMENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vehemently mean? 

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

1. in a vehement manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEHEMENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a vehement manner

Context example:

he vehemently denied the accusations against him

Pertainym:

vehement (marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid)

 Context examples 

This was of course vehemently talked down as no reason at all; Mrs. Allen was called on to second him, and the two others walked in, to give their assistance.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

How he suddenly and vehemently clasps in both arms the form he dared not, a moment since, touch with his finger!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"But—" she began vehemently, then clenched her hands and stopped.

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

They are very bad reasoners, and vehemently given to opposition, unless when they happen to be of the right opinion, which is seldom their case.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This gave me courage to protest most vehemently that I loved Dora better than I could tell, or anyone believe; that all my friends knew how I loved her; that my aunt, Agnes, Traddles, everyone who knew me, knew how I loved her, and how earnest my love had made me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)