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What is the adverb for affectionately?

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affectedly
  1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.
  2. (obsolete) Lovingly; with tender care.
  3. (obsolete) With intention, intentionally, deliberately.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “I have met, I believe, the two most affectedly camp people in the country, and I have the mental scars to prove it.”
      “She is certainly not studying the book which she holds on her knee and fingers so affectedly.”
      “I shwugged my shoulders, smiled affably, and as affectedly as you like, and changed the subject.”
affectively
  1. In an affective way; emotionally.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Another expected outcome of being affectively similar to others is a high self-perception of one's influence level in the group.”
      “According to the McMaster model of family functioning, parents need to be affectively involved with their children.”
      “Withdrawn mothers are disengaged, unresponsive, affectively flat and do little to support the infant's activity.”
affectingly
  1. So as to affect in an emotional sense.
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    1. “Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own affectingly hymns the singer's late father, pulling back from mawkishness.”
      “They now have a most unusual friendship and she speaks affectingly of his story as a peculiarly American tragedy.”
      “It's a quiet story, affectingly intimate, dealing as it does with family, pride, roots and humility.”
affectionately
  1. In an affectionate manner.
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    1. “She leaned down and kissed the top of his head, hugging him about his broad shoulders, and he pressed her hand affectionately.”
      “To one and all, this most genial of personalities was affectionately known as Mickey.”
      “Unicorn was cuddled affectionately against Kyri's wet face when she awoke with a start.”
affectionally
  1. In an affectional manner.
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    1. “A surprise guest was funnyman John Bishop who was affectionally bullied into ditching the wisecracks for the guitar and a discordant singalong of Daydream Believer.”
      “He is still known affectionally at The Hawthorns as The King.”
      “Watching Lewis, affectionally nicknamed The Beast by the Corbett Sports Stadium faithful, give his all on the pitch makes me think back to a younger Lee Hunt.”
affectlessly
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