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Rabidly

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rab·id  (rbd)
adj.
1. Of or affected by rabies.
2. Raging; uncontrollable: rabid thirst.
3. Extremely zealous or enthusiastic; fanatical: a rabid football fan.
[Latin rabidus, from rabere, to rave.]
ra·bidi·ty (r-bd-t, r-), rabid·ness (rbd-ns) n.
rabid·ly adv.
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Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night--of the general state of mind in which I had indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told, in her own quiet way a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;--I pronounced judgment to this effect:-
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
Well, perhaps I do go at it a bit rabidly, and feel a kind of pleasure in smashing anything.
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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