ferociously
advEtymology From ferocious + -ly.
1
In a ferocious manner, particularly violent and aggressive.
- Challenger snorted ferociously as he looked at it, and his thick black hair seemed to bristle up in his wrath.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
2
Intensely or extremely.
- To get a Times review, a gay book generally must be by a well-known writer preferably not performing at his best, or be so ferociously learned, like John Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, that the Times would lose intellectual credibility by not noticing it.1987 February 1, T. R. Witomski, “Zeitgeist or Poltergeist? Why Gay Books Are So Bad”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 9:
- a ferociously fast pace