Another word for fondly

Bordeaux had one arm wrapped fondly around the shoulders of a saloon girl.

The nights made him think fondly of his old friend, an ancient blind man who saved him from madness in the catacombs.

Some ecclesiastical historians have fondly imagined that after the sack of Rome the bishop Innocent returned to a position of predominance.

Malcolm's brother, William the Lion (1165-1214), initiated the French alliance, fondly ascribed to the time of Charlemagne.

The fondly cherished theory which attributes Milesian descent to the bulk of the native population has at length been assailed.