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Webster 1913 Edition


Anxiously

Anx′ious-ly

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adv.
In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

Webster 1828 Edition


Anxiously

ANX'IOUSLY

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adv.
In an anxious manner; solicitously; with painful uncertainty; carefully; unquietly.

Definition 2024


anxiously

anxiously

English

Adverb

anxiously (comparative more anxiously, superlative most anxiously)

  1. In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
    He anxiously awaited the arrival of his child.
    • 1909, Archibald Marshall, The Squire's Daughter, chapterI:
      He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. [] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again [] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.

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