adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a vivacious or lively manner; with vivacity or sprightly animation; † vigorously.

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a. 1711.  Ken, Hymnarium, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 40. The more of Spirit things contract, The more vivaciously they act.

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1816.  J. Scott, Vis. Paris (ed. 5), 19. In the French crowd,… vivacity is every where apparent;—the soldiers are vivaciously surly; the ladies vivaciously charming [etc.].

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1847.  C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, xviii. While she is so vivaciously accosting him.

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1880.  ‘Ouida,’ Moths, I. 40. ‘By the bye,’ said her mother vivaciously, ‘didn’t you bring a maid?’

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  Comb.  1859.  Westm. Rev., Oct., 594. A vivaciously-written narrative of a vacation voyage.

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