adv. Obs. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an ‘affectuous’ manner.
1. With earnest feeling or desire (see AFFECT sb.); earnestly, ardently, eagerly.
1450. Q. Margaret, in Four Cent. Eng. Lett. (1881), 8. Praye you right affectuously, that, at reverence of us, ye will have oure said squire.
1494. Fabyan, V. xcvii. 71. Both she and Seynt Remigeus prayed so affectuously that the childe was restoryd.
1552. Huloet, Abcedarium, Affectuouslye, or ardentlye. Auide.
1569. T. Newton, Cicero de Senect., 53 b. Neyther affectuously to be desired, nor without cause to be lefte and forsaken.
1645. in Harrington’s Nugæ Antiq., 72. Most affectuouslye beseaching your Grace.
2. With favorable or loving feeling; affectionately in mod. sense); kindly, lovingly, tenderly.
1447. Bokenham, Lyvys of Seyntys (1835), 51. Lorde thou knowyst how affecteuously I hym now love and evere have do.
1481. Earl Worcester, Tully on Frendship, IV. 10. We should love our frend as affectuously as our self.
c. 1530. Ld. Berners, Arthur (1814), 91. All other ladyes and damoyselles affectuously beheld hym.
1549. Coverdale, Erasm. Paraphr. Phil. i. 7. My minde is so affectuously set towards you.
