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Definition of Jealously
1. Adverb. With jealousy. "He guarded his privacy jealously"
2. Adverb. With jealousy; in an envious manner. "He looked at his friend's new car jealously"
Definition of Jealously
1. adv. In a jealous manner.
Definition of Jealously
1. Adverb. in a jealous manner ¹
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Definition of Jealously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jealously
Literary usage of Jealously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Father and Son: Biographical Recollections by Edmund Gosse (1907)
"... seems to have been always vaguely present in my Mother's dreams, as an obstinate
conviction to be carefully recognised and jealously guarded against. ..."
2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1918)
"... and that there is no duty which the Court will more jealously and invariably
discharge than that of affixing proper punishment for such an offense, ..."
3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1898)
"not the foe of human rule ; a great reality, yet not needing jealously to assert
its rights as against civil governments, able rather to assert itself ..."
4. History of the Commonwealth of England: From Its Commencement, to the by William Godwin (1826)
"... jealously of his ascendancy, and of the encroach- i . ' j ments of prerogative,
is wholsome. The king must not shew himself acquainted with any thing ..."
5. The Canadian War of 1812 by Charles Prestwood Lucas (1906)
"Riall on his side was jealously guarding the communications with Burlington and
at the same time holding his force in readiness to attack the flank of ..."
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