Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deeply; from the heart.
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- adverb In a
rooted manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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.
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She had thought herself absurdly but deep-rootedly afraid of all horseflesh, but Gypsy didn't seem a mere horse.
Missy Dana Gatlin
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Being rootedly of Brooklyn Heights, Claire didn't know much about the
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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There are many capitalists in Europe as rich, as vulgar, as selfish, as rootedly opposed to any fellowship of the fortunate and unfortunate.
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