passionately
adverb
pas·sion·ate·ly
ˈpa-sh(ə-)nət-lē 
: in a passionate manner:
a
: with great feeling and emotional intensity
Walt never ceased to be passionately loyal to his home town …—
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan FranzenClyburn has argued passionately for lowering the prices of prison phone calls and extending broadband access to the poor.—Brian Fung
Brian FungHe is filled with the rhetoric of dissent. He is passionately against war and passionately for peace.—Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier
b
: with strong sexual and often romantic feeling
kissed passionately
They fell passionately in love.
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Calò, a 46-year-old Sicilian, speaks passionately about El Popo, as Mexicans call the volcano, rattling off trivia.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2026
Similar protests were held in Long Beach and Santa Ana, where two people were demonstrators passionately protested on Friday night.
—Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
An overflow crowd that spilled out in to the hallway pleaded passionately with the Granbury City Council this week to hold off annexing more than 2,000 acres of undeveloped land just west of the city, fearing developers will build another data center or other sprawling industry.
—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Jan. 2026
Thomas Jefferson, as secretary of state, passionately advocated honoring the treaty, viewing it as a debt of gratitude to a nation that shared republican ideals and had sacrificed much for American liberty.
—Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
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Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2026
Similar protests were held in Long Beach and Santa Ana, where two people were demonstrators passionately protested on Friday night.
—Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
An overflow crowd that spilled out in to the hallway pleaded passionately with the Granbury City Council this week to hold off annexing more than 2,000 acres of undeveloped land just west of the city, fearing developers will build another data center or other sprawling industry.
—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Jan. 2026
Thomas Jefferson, as secretary of state, passionately advocated honoring the treaty, viewing it as a debt of gratitude to a nation that shared republican ideals and had sacrificed much for American liberty.
—Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for passionately
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“Passionately.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passionately. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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