convulsively

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English

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"But his words died in a strange gurgling in the throat; the eyes suddenly became fixed; the mouth fell; once he stretched out his hands convulsively, but they instantly relaxed, and his head sunk on Norbourne's arm."
"Her thumb and nail lightly flicked the palm of my hand until I could bear it no longer and closed my hand convulsively over hers."

Etymology tree English convulsive Middle English -ly English -ly English convulsively From convulsive + -ly.

more convulsively (comparative) most convulsively (superlative)

convulse convulsion

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