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compulsively, adv.|kəmˈpʌlsɪvlɪ|
[f. prec.]
In a compulsive manner; by compulsion.
1. By means of, or in the way of, compulsion.
1605Play Stucley 43 in Sch. Shaks. (1878) I. 159 If you give me her hand and not her heart. The one, I know you may, compulsively: The other, never but unwillingly. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. iii. 14 Frenzy in the Tories, to hope to be ever able to..compulsively extinguish the Schism..of our Dissenters. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1859) II. 386 The government compulsively contracted the press by their twenty stationery printers.
†2. Under compulsion, on compulsion. Obs.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. lxvi. If wee doe ill compulsiuely, wee are cleered by the violence. 1827Southey Hist. Penins. War II. 489 To have suffered even compulsively its yoke and its contempt.
3. In accordance with a psychological compulsion (see compulsion 2); in a compulsive manner (see prec.).
1937K. Horney Neurotic Personality vii. 128 Such a change may sometimes take grotesque forms, as in persons who after failing in some love affair start to eat so compulsively that they gain twenty to thirty pounds in a short time. 1955D. W. Maurer in Pubn. Amer. Dial. Soc. XXIV. 5 The teen-agers who almost compulsively identify with this semicriminal subculture. 1962Listener 6 Sept. 350/1 Lawrence..was often compulsively autobiographical in his writing. 1966Listener 10 Feb. 214/3 In The Fight for Barbara author and subject come too close for full artistic success, though it is compulsively readable. |
