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From Middle English violently; equivalent to violent +‎ -ly.

IPA(key): /ˈvaɪ(ə)ləntli/
Hyphenation: vi‧o‧lent‧ly

violently (comparative more violently, superlative most violently)

In a violent manner.
To an intense degree; extremely; strongly; intensely.
I found myself violently disagreeing with him.
- 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 112:
  Arthur started to choke violently on his drink.
- 2023 January, Meg Roser, Charlotte Chalker and Tim Squirrell, “Spitting out the blackpill: Evaluating how incels present themselves in their own words on the incel Wiki”, in Institute for Strategic Dialogue‎[1], page 5:
  Those who believe in the blackpill tend to adopt violently misogynistic beliefs about the nature of women, particularly with regard to their sexual behaviour.

in a violent manner

Arabic: بِعُنْف (bi-ʕunf)
Egyptian Arabic: بعنف (beʕunf)
Catalan: violentament
Dutch: gewelddadig (nl)
French: violemment (fr)
Galician: violentamente
German: gewalttätig (de)
Hungarian: erőszakosan (hu)
Icelandic: ofsalega (is)
Ido: violentoze (io)
Italian: violentamente
Middle English: violently
Portuguese: violentamente (pt)
Romanian: violent (ro), cu violență
Sanskrit: रभसा (sa) (rabhasā)
Spanish: violentamente (es), a lo bestia (es)

to an intense degree; extremely; strongly; intensely

From violent +‎ -ly.

IPA(key): /ˌviːɔlˈɛntliː/, /ˌviːəlˈɛntliː/, /viəlˈɛntliː/, /ˈviːəlɛntliː/, /-liːtʃ(ə)/

violently

Violently, in a violent or harmful way.
In a religiously dangerous or harmful way.
In a powerful, effective, or mighty way:
In a way causing great damage, injury, or harm.
In a forceful way; in a way showing intense feelings.
In an abrupt or warningless way.

English: violently
“vī̆olentlī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 31 May 2019.