devotedly


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de·vot·ed

 (dĭ-vō′tĭd)
adj.
1. Feeling or displaying strong affection or attachment; ardent: a devoted friend.
2. Having been consecrated; dedicated.

de·vot′ed·ly adv.
de·vot′ed·ness n.
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Adv.1.devotedly - with devotion; "He served his master devotedly"
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Translations

devotedly

[dɪˈvəʊtɪdlɪ] ADV [care for, love, follow] → con devoción; [loyal] → fervientemente
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

devotedly

advhingebungsvoll; serve, followtreu; supporteifrig
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

devotedly

[dɪˈvəʊtɪdlɪ] advdevotamente, con devozione
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
He spluttered out words of apology for any wrong he had committed towards her; he told her he loved her devotedly and begged her to return to him.
The kindhearted countess was the more vexed with Sonya because that poor, dark-eyed niece of hers was so meek, so kind, so devotedly grateful to her benefactors, and so faithfully, unchangingly, and unselfishly in love with Nicholas, that there were no grounds for finding fault with her.
The poor woman still held fast by some of the principles imparted to her in happier days; and she was devotedly fond of her daughter.
Judging from appearances, his idea of a wife is a thing to love one devotedly, and to stay at home to wait upon her husband, and amuse him and minister to his comfort in every possible way, while he chooses to stay with her; and, when he is absent, to attend to his interests, domestic or otherwise, and patiently wait his return, no matter how he may be occupied in the meantime.
The man doesn't live who trusts you more implicitly, who believes in you more devotedly, than I do."
Raoul kissed as devotedly as a lover could have done the hand he held in his own.
I had a room-mate that winter in Columbus who was already a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, and who read Browning as devotedly as I read Heine.
One admission, however, will not be made, namely, that Michael could not love as devotedly, as wholeheartedly, unselfishly, madly, self-sacrificingly as a human.
I love you, Valeria--truly, devotedly, passionately.
Many others may have told you so, but there is no one, Lucille, who is so devotedly, so hopelessly your slave as I."
I will not say with me, though he had business relations with me many years ago, and we are now intimate; I will say with the fair daughter to whom he is so devotedly attached, and who is so devotedly attached to him?
When you spoke to me of experiencing a vague and indefinite sense of coming danger, I placed myself blindly and devotedly at your service, asking no other reward than the pleasure of being useful to you; and have I ever since, by word or look, given you cause of regret for having selected me from the numbers that would willingly have sacrificed their lives for you?