hotly

Etymology

From Middle English *hotly, *hatliche, from Old English hātlīċe (“ardently, fervently”); equivalent to hot + -ly.

adv

  1. With great amounts of heat.
  2. In a heated manner; intensely or vehemently.
    The prospective staff redundancy that would ensue from adoption of the plan is, of course, one of the hotly controversial aspects of the proposals and the chief issue on which a three-day N.U.R. strike was threatened for May 14-16, a few days after this issue went to press. 1963 June, “News and Comment: The redundancy problem”, in Modern Railways, pages 362–363

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