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WARMLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a hearty manner
Example:
We welcomed her warmly
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Pertainym:
warm (psychologically warm; friendly and responsive)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a warm manner
Example:
warm-clad skiers
Synonyms:
warm; warmly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
warm (having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat)
Context examples:
“I think not,” said my uncle, warmly.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Catherine coloured as she warmly answered, “No friend can be better worth keeping than Eleanor.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
“Then I am sorry too,” quoth Alleyne warmly, “and here is my hand upon it.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Arthur held out his hand, and took the old man's warmly.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"You are a good woman," he warmly replied.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
On shore, I could see the glow of the great camp-fire burning warmly through the shore-side trees.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Scarecrow was both pleased and proud at the fulfillment of his greatest wish, and having thanked Oz warmly he went back to his friends.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
“Why, sir, you’ve got me the very evidence I want,” said the inspector warmly, shaking my friend by the hand.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Yes, you did, too," the other asserted warmly.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“It is a privilege to be associated with you in the handling of a case,” said the inspector, warmly.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
