erotically
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]erotically (comparative more erotically, superlative most erotically)
- in an erotic manner
- 1901, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Three Plays for Puritans”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], →OCLC, page xxix:
- Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded.
- 1928, Wallace Henry Thurman, Negro Life in New York's Harlem, Chapter 7:
- They also practice healing, and, during the course of their services, shout and dance as erotically and sincerely as savages around a jungle fire.
- 2006, Mary Rorich, “Knowledge is Power, And You'd Better Believe it”, in Margaret Orr, Mary Rorich, Finuala Dowling, editors, The Wits Wonderwoman Book: Buttons and Breakfasts:
- Wits is voyeur to the underbelly of the city; like a madam in a knock-shop, she watches equivocally the mess of city garbage tangled erotically with roadside gambling and sunglass-snatching
Translations
[edit]in an erotic manner
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