aˈffectually, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
= affectionately.
† 1. With eager desire, earnestly. Obs.
| 1483 Caxton G. de la Tour f iij b, Moche affectually I praye yow as my right dere daughters. 1495 Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de Worde) ii. 184 b/1 Some folke..prayed hym thre dayes duryng affectually that he wolde delyuer..the poore syke. 1509 Fisher in Wks. 1876, 303, I pray you al nowe affectually to praye, and for her..to say one Pater-Noster. |
† 2. Lovingly, fondly; affectionately (in mod. sense). Obs.
| 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys of Seyntys (1835) 53, I love my wyf as affectually..as any man dothe his. c 1530 Ld. Berners Arthur (1814) 91 Whan Arthur was within the tente wyth the ladyes, who affectually behelde him. |
3. That arouses emotion. Cf. affectual a. 2.
| 1951 S. F. Nadel Found. Social Anthropol. 31 Affectually orientated actions, in which the end-result is a psychological (emotional) state of the actor. |