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keenly

adv
/ˈkiːnli/

Etymology

From Middle English kenely, kenliche, from Old English cēnlīċe (“keenly, boldly, courageously”), equivalent to keen + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian köinlik (“boldly”), archaic German kühnlich (“bravely”).

  1. inherited from cēnlīċe — “keenly, boldly, courageously”
  2. inherited from kenely

Definitions

  1. In a keen manner.

    • watch something keenly
    • We played keenly.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at keenly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at keenly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at keenly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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