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  1. consumingly love

Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In a consuming manner.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. In a consuming manner; so as to consume.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. In a consuming manner.

Etymologies

  1. consuming +‎ -ly (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “That also goes a long way ensuring that future upgrades can be installed without painfully and time-consumingly merging code changes with the upgrade.”

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  • “As we established back in the Sonia Sotomayor days, none of us is consumingly fascinated with these kinds of confirmation hearings.”

    The Guardian: Kagan hearing check-in

  • “It's because I love these so ardently, so consumingly, that I feel about the visual arts some of Socrates's iconoclastic distrust.”

    The Huffington Post: Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: 'Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration'

  • “Which is why, as a constantly, effortfully, expensively and very time-consumingly 'slim, toned, well groomed & dressed woman (who is prepared at the very least to feign interest in sex)'I don't think I'm asking such an awful lot of the world wanting a man with a half decent job (I gave up aspiring to the tall, dark, handsome thing in my middle teens...)”

    What Men Want - The Skinny

  • “But the fact remains that I must have got the highest ratio of long, carefully-composed, time-consumingly written blog posts to actual readers in the entire blogosphere.”

    Meh, She Wrote

  • “Fery tricky problem well, if time consumingly, handled.”

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  • “I've never loved anyone like this, so all-consumingly, with the feeling that she is just part of me, and to have that person reject me so bluntly just kills me.”

    Father's Night

  • “Things are so blastedly, wondrously, and all-consumingly baffling and overwhelming at this point, that I'm not entirely sure what to say.”

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  • “Never before had the beast overcome him so completely, so consumingly.”

    Ascendance

  • “It was as though the complex history of resentfully recorded Scott politics that sparked or fuelled their frequent inter-sibling atrocities made the notion of extra-familial violence seem a pointless frivolity, like casual sex when you're in a consumingly passionate long-term relationship.”

    Boiling a Frog

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