warmly

warm +‎ -ly

• (General American) IPA^(key): /wɔɹmli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɔːmli/

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• Hyphenation: warm‧ly

warmly (comparative warmlier or more warmly, superlative warmliest or most warmly)

1. In a manner that maintains warm temperature.

   Be sure to dress warmly today!

2. In a warm, friendly manner.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     I said so - I said so warmly, for I felt that the Professor was an ill-used man.

3. (dated) With emotion, especially some anger; somewhat hotly.
   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 166:

     One evening in particular, about a week after Colonel Brandon left the country, his heart seemed more than usually open to every feeling of attachment to the objects around him; and on Mrs. Dashwood’s happening to mention her design of improving the cottage in the spring, he warmly opposed every alteration of a place which affection had established as perfect with him. “What!” he exclaimed⁠—“improve this dear cottage! No. That I will never consent to. Not a stone must be added to its walls, not an inch to its size, if my feelings are regarded.”

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 135:

     Elinor then ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a present from a man so little, or at least so lately known to her. This was too much. “You are mistaken, Elinor,” said she warmly, “in supposing I know very little of Willoughby."