emotionally

What it means

1. In an emotional manner; displaying emotion.

   "For a long time, I thought I'd never live to see this day," he said emotionally. "Thank you all for everything you did in my behalf."

   1 more example

   Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

   2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015, page 164

2. Regarding emotions.

   Physically, it was easy, but emotionally it was the hardest thing I've ever done.

In a sentence

"For a long time, I thought I'd never live to see this day," he said emotionally. "Thank you all for everything you did in my behalf."

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
3. Proto-Italic*eks
4. Latinex
5. Latinex-
6. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
7. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
8. Proto-Italic*moweō
9. Latinmoveō
10. Latinēmoveō
11. Vulgar Latin*exmovēre
12. Old Frenchesmovoir
13. Middle Frenchesmouvoir
14. Middle Frenchemotion
15. Englishemotion
16. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
17. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
18. Englishemotional
19. Englishemotionally

From emotional + -ly.