possessively
Adverb
Meaning
In a possessive manner.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
carefully
possessive
affectionately
amicably
defensively
ambiguously
ardently
anxiously
jealously
greedily
selfishly
askance
amiably
apprehensively
archly
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had.
he was sleeping, one arm flung possessively across his wife