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Madly   /mˈædli/   Listen
Madly

adverb
1.
In an uncontrolled manner.  Synonym: frantically.
2.
In an insane manner.  Synonyms: crazily, dementedly, insanely.  "He behaves crazily when he is off his medication" , "The witch cackled madly" , "Screaming dementedly"
3.
(used as intensives) extremely.  Synonyms: deadly, deucedly, devilishly, insanely.  "Deadly dull" , "Deadly earnest" , "Deucedly clever" , "Insanely jealous"






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"Madly" Quotes from Famous Books



... metaphysician, and miserable man, William Hazlitt. He lodged at the house of Mr. Walker, a tailor, who was blessed with two fair daughters, with one of whom (Sarah) Hazlitt, then a married man, fell madly in love. He declared she was like the Madonna (she seems really to have been a cold, calculating flirt, rather afraid of her wild lover). To his 'Liber Amoris,' a most stultifying series of dialogues between ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... fondly—I love madly—I love as a man who would give his life-blood to spare her a tear—I love Valentine de Villefort, who is being murdered at this moment! Do you understand me? I love her; and I ask God and you how I can save her?" Monte Cristo uttered a cry which those ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... Ye have ruined me," he screamed, and rushing madly away he lost himself in the crowd. In his rage, he had screamed that the song was Sachs's, but nobody would believe him, because, as Beckmesser had sung it, it had sounded ...
— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

... the roan for him. Then the boy Richard turned upon him, with a cry that was something between a sob and an oath: "Yes, trade off the roan and all we've got left to him, I'll warrant ye will!" he choked out. Then he was gone, pelting off madly across the fields, with his bold and innocent young heart, that had as yet known no fiercer passion than this for his sister, all aflame with grief and angry jealousy, as of one who sees his best haled off before his eyes, and still with awed submission ...
— Madelon - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... he cried with an oath. "Why are you not miles on? Get on! Move! Move!! Move!!!" At every yell he hurled his frenzied broncho upon the ponies which brought up the rear, and in a few minutes had the whole cavalcade madly careering down the sloping trail. Wilder and wilder grew the pace. Turning a sharp corner round a jutting rock a pack pony stumbled and went crashing fifty feet to the rock below. "On! On!" yelled Raven, emptying his gun into the struggling ...
— Corporal Cameron • Ralph Connor


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