adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an applausive manner; with applause or approbation.

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1741.  Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. 12. Having read it … to audiences where the tears were applausively eloquent.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. II. i. 43. She in all things will applausively second him.

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