convulsively

comparative more convulsively · superlative most convulsively

1. In a convulsive manner.

   Her thumb and nail lightly flicked the palm of my hand until I could bear it no longer and closed my hand convulsively over hers.

   1989 February 12, Jennifer Justice, “A Night At The Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 9

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   But his words died in a strange gurgling in the throat; the eyes suddenly became fixed; the mouth fell; once he stretched out his hands convulsively, but they instantly relaxed, and his head sunk on Norbourne's arm.

   1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Parting”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 321