adverb
definition
In a fierce manner.
example
The wind blew fiercely and the rain fell heavily.
Examples of fiercely in a Sentence
It awoke more fiercely than before, straining against her resolution.
The other was frowning fiercely.
Possession of the Sandbag Battery was far more fiercely contested.
He turned but she pressed her open mouth against his lips, muffling his words, fiercely kissing him.
She is the head of the household and fiercely loves her kids and family.
On July 11 1918 he accepted under the title of" Mindove II., King of Lithuania,"thus strangely choosing the style of a heathen prince of the 13th century who fiercely resisted the Teutonic order.
Our republic has prospered because it fiercely protected life, liberty, and property, and must continue to do so.
The partisan warfare flamed up most fiercely in the latter days of October.
Daniela stood where they left her, frowning fiercely.
On both sides was civil war, urged as fiercely as that against the common enemy, in which the parties sought allies indiscriminately among Christians and Mahommedans.
You may get sucked into fiercely competitive board games.
In 1987 he joined Capital Radio where he remains a fiercely loyal stalwart.
Cardiff, roared on by a fiercely partisan crowd, refused to bow.
Well known for being good mothers and can be fiercely protective with calves at foot, particularly toward dogs.
However fiercely conducted, it failed, though the Uniate Church with slighter powers of resistance was now completely forced into Orthodoxy, its ceremonial being definitely forbidden and its monasteries dissolved.
In many ways he was a typical Mahommedan, fiercely hostile towards unbelievers - "Let us purge the air of the air they breathe" was his aim for the demons of the Cross, - intensely devout and regular in prayers and fasting.
Disputes had been constantly recurring between Dutch and English traders in the East Indies and elsewhere, and the seeds were already sown of that stern rivalry which was to issue in a series of fiercely contested wars.
The zeal, industry and courage displayed by the grand pensionary during the course of this fiercely contested naval struggle could scarcely have been surpassed.
Once a benefit is established, it creates a constituency fiercely dedicated to defending it.
A child that was previously happy to share toys can get fiercely possessive.
Wrathful at the failure of his protest and at the continuance of the republican government, Prynne attacked his adversaries fiercely in print.
The parents pay no further attention to them, except the pythons, which incubate their eggs by coiling their body over them, and fiercely defend them.
On the 11th of February 1873, however, Amedeo, abandoned by his partisans and attacked more fiercely than ever by his opponents, signed his abdication.
The French army now fiercely attacked Wellington all along the line; and the culminating point of this phase was reached when Napoleon sent forward the Guard, less 5 battalions, Fifth .
In Poland proper the szlachta were fiercely opposed to the magnates; and the Protestants seemed bent upon still further castigating the clergy.
The budget presented to the Reichstag by Prince B 610w, which laid new burdens upon the landed and capitalist classes, was fiercely opposed bytheAgrarians, and led to the break-up of the Liberal-Conservative bloc on whose support the chancellor had relied since the elections of 1906.
Kleist made a most stubborn resistance on the Burk ridge, and Bertrand's corps was called up by Napoleon to join in the battle; but part of Blucher's corps fiercely engaged Bertrand, and Burk was not taken till 7 P.M.
The more fiercely he denounced infallibility, the confessional, the sacramental system, the larger these things bulked in the eyes of Rome.
Sometimes, indeed, he denounces fiercely enough the arts and pretensions of priests; but no one has embodied with such profound spiritual insight some of the most vital moments of the Christian story.
At the same time he fell fiercely upon the great lords of the Welsh Marches, who had been indulging in private wars; when.
But he was too fiercely in earnest in his horror of Jacobinism to allow mere party associations to guide him.
At no other historical crisis have passions been more fiercely excited; at none have shameless disregard of truth and blind credulity been more common.
It was one of those Freudian slips that caused her to blush fiercely.
However, fiercely ambitious and determined, it did not take long for Thomas to find a new way to occupy himself.
Like the larvae, the adults are fiercely carnivorous.
Marx and Engels were fiercely critical of these various strands of socialism, as the final sections of the Manifesto explain in some detail.
But he is also a trainer who has gathered a fiercely loyal following among the nation's punters over the years.
No quarter was asked nor given in a fiercely contested, often ill-tempered clash from which Leeds emerged with flying colors.
For long these schools although sharing the same site were fiercely independent.
We all know him as a fiercely intelligent man, an outstanding linguist, academic and manager of people.
She was also fiercely loyal, always supportive, nothing was too much trouble, she made me very, very happy.
The well-known and fiercely competitive online auction marketplace has released positions for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Clubs all over the UK.
Apple had fiercely opposed the bill, calling it " state sponsored piracy " .
I've met many people working for Shelter who are fiercely passionate and dedicated to the organization they work for.
Commoners are fiercely possessive of their rights and their commons, and know them well.
Bourdieu fiercely rejected the fashionable relativism that denies that the sciences can obtain genuine knowledge of the world.
With other Caucasian tribes they fiercely resisted Russian conquest in the nineteenth century.
Soon they are driving into the mountains where fiercely territorial battles are still fought.
A tight recording schedule ensured the jokes remained fiercely topical.
The last days of Matthias were occupied in endeavouring to secure the succession to the throne for his illegitimate son Janos (see Corvinus, Janos); but Queen Beatrice, though childless, fiercely and openly opposed the idea and the matter was still pending when Matthias, who had long been crippled by gout, expired very suddenly on Palm Sunday, the 4th of April 1490.