Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Deeply; from the heart.

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  • adverb In a rooted manner.

Etymologies

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rooted +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • He was, in truth, making some last arrangements about executions and such ugly things; and though these duties were rootedly repulsive to him, he always performed them with precision.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • He was, in truth, making some last arrangements about executions and such ugly things; and though these duties were rootedly repulsive to him, he always performed them with precision.

    The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

  • He was, in truth, making some last arrangements about executions and such ugly things; and though these duties were rootedly repulsive to him, he always performed them with precision.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • She had thought herself absurdly but deep-rootedly afraid of all horseflesh, but Gypsy didn't seem a mere horse.

    Missy Dana Gatlin

  • Being rootedly of Brooklyn Heights, Claire didn't know much about the

    Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • He was, in truth, making some last arrangements about executions and such ugly things; and though these duties were rootedly repulsive to him, he always performed them with precision.

    The Innocence of Father Brown: The Secret Garden Gilbert Keith 1911

  • Agent's influence, they will, that they are rootedly opposed to our presence in their land.

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • They expected from the Government a policy which could be explained to the House -- either a policy of alliances, to which he himself was rootedly opposed; or the policy, which was the only true policy for this country, of keeping up such a fleet as would make us safe against any probable combination.

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • But as Carlyle's was rootedly a romance of conquest, he had to prove that the thing which conquered in Germany was really more poetical than anything else in Germany.

    The Crimes of England 1905

  • There are many capitalists in Europe as rich, as vulgar, as selfish, as rootedly opposed to any fellowship of the fortunate and unfortunate.

    Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays 1905

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