Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a raving manner; with furious wildness or frenzy; distractedly.
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- adverb So as to
rave ;madly ; in aninsane way.
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- adverb in a raving manner
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Examples
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Based on the female-centered Midwifery Model of Care Gosh, the flippant grandmother ravingly bridled during the bucolic $25.
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The first time I read The Thirteen Clocks I kind of liked it, and then I read it aloud to my wife, and now it is a book I am ravingly fannish about.
mrissa: Books read, early January mrissa 2010
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They are all ravingly loonie far lefties down there.
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As for other points of view, here's a ravingly positive one, this one and this one are positive but more balanced, and this one makes a few other criticisms I'd mostly agree with.
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Look for the detail-oriented folks at Bioware to take the same basic philosophy that made the first game so ravingly cool and crank the polish to 11.
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They are all ravingly loonie far lefties down there.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Camp Responds To Hillary Barb 2009
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Daschle's officially in charge of food and pharmaceuticals in the US, btw, in case you're new to this blog, and in particular he'll have oversight of our ravingly deranged Food and Drug Administration.
Can Daschle Be Confirmed Faster Than Salmonella Can Spread? Eddie Gehman Kohan 2009
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The purchase/takeover of Idaho-based Hecla's workings near El Callao and overtures directed at Gold Reserve and other residual speculative players in Venezuela's currently-paralyzed gold mining sector seems schoolbook for the Russians, who are no longer the ravingly red communist allies that Chavez may fondly think they remain in his many-years friendship with Fidel Castro Ruz ... but that's another day's story!
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Back in about 1998, Camille Paglia described 'Vagina Monolgues' as a "ravingly anti-male" play.
Congratulations to Jane Fonda! Ann Althouse 2008
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The vignette of our times, ultimately revealing the irrelevance of our intellectual classes, is the rapturous acceptance of a "ravingly anti-male" play.
Congratulations to Jane Fonda! Ann Althouse 2008
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