erotically

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adverb

in an erotic manner

UncommonScrabble 15

Meanings

adverberotically (comparative more erotically, superlative most erotically)

comparative more erotically · superlative most erotically

  1. in an erotic manner

    They also practice healing, and, during the course of their services, shout and dance as erotically and sincerely as savages around a jungle fire.

    1928, Wallace Henry Thurman, Negro Life in New York's Harlem, Chapter 7
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    Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded.

    1901, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Three Plays for Puritans”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], →OCLC, page xxix

    Wits is voyeur to the underbelly of the city; like a madam in a knock-shop, she watches equivocally the mess of city garbage tangled erotically with roadside gambling and sunglass-snatching

    2006, Mary Rorich, “Knowledge is Power, And You'd Better Believe it”, in Margaret Orr, Mary Rorich, Finuala Dowling, editors, The Wits Wonderwoman Book: Buttons and Breakfasts

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekἐρωτῐκός (erōtĭkós)
  2. Latinerōticu
  3. Frenchérotique
  4. Englisherotic
  5. Englisherotically

From erotic + -ally.

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Translations

Catalan eròticament
  • eròticamentin an erotic manner
Esperanto erotike
  • erotikein an erotic manner
Finnish eroottisesti
  • eroottisestiin an erotic manner
French érotiquement
  • érotiquementin an erotic manner
Italian eroticamente
  • eroticamentein an erotic manner
Portuguese eroticamente
  • eroticamentein an erotic manner
Spanish eróticamente
  • eróticamentein an erotic manner
Swedish erotiskt
  • erotisktin an erotic manner
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