adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an amorous manner; in the way of love, lovingly, fondly, affectionately.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Merch. T., 436. So that ye please hir not to amorously.
1430. Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. viii. Nightingales Full amorously did welcome in their songe The lusty season.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froissart, II. xxvi. 72. He was of good and easy acquayntance with euery man, and amorously wolde speke to them.
1634. Habington, Castara (1870), 38. The Larke … amorously courts her [Aurora’s] beames.
1821. Keats, Isabel, lxii. Asking for her lost Basil amorously.
1830. Tennyson, Madeline, iii. If my lips should dare to kiss Thy taper fingers amorously.
