adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an animated manner, with animation; vividly, vivaciously, keenly.

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1784.  J. Barry, Lect. Art, iv. (1848), 158. That beautiful variety of … love, and reverence, which are so animatedly expressed.

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1836.  Blackw. Mag., XL. 806. Animatedly descriptive and devotional.

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1876.  G. Meredith, Beauch. Career, I. xvii. 252. Watching the ship’s progress animatedly.

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1882.  J. Hawthorne, Fort. Fool, I. xix. He was talking animatedly.

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