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INTIMATELY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With great or especially intimate knowledge
Example:
we knew them well
Synonyms:
intimately; well
Classified under:
Pertainym:
intimate (marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a close manner
Example:
the person most nearly concerned
Synonyms:
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Context examples:
I do not often walk this way now, said Emma, as they proceeded, but then there will be an inducement, and I shall gradually get intimately acquainted with all the hedges, gates, pools and pollards of this part of Highbury.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
During my school-days I had been intimately associated with a lad named Percy Phelps, who was of much the same age as myself, though he was two classes ahead of me.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Rushworth was not forgotten: a most friendly reception and warmth of hand-shaking had already met him, and with pointed attention he was now included in the objects most intimately connected with Mansfield.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I had heard you described by those who knew you intimately.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She began by inquiring if they saw much of Mr. Willoughby at Cleveland, and whether they were intimately acquainted with him.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Wickham's attention was caught; and after observing Mr. Collins for a few moments, he asked Elizabeth in a low voice whether her relation was very intimately acquainted with the family of de Bourgh.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
For two hours we rambled about together, in silence for the most part, as befits two men who know each other intimately.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Intimately.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
To Mrs. Jennings, to the Middletons, he has been long and intimately known; they equally love and respect him; and even my own knowledge of him, though lately acquired, is very considerable; and so highly do I value and esteem him, that if Marianne can be happy with him, I shall be as ready as yourself to think our connection the greatest blessing to us in the world.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The whole question of the Netherland-Sumatra Company and of the colossal schemes of Baron Maupertuis are too recent in the minds of the public, and are too intimately concerned with politics and finance to be fitting subjects for this series of sketches.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
