Jamie: I really truly madly deeply passionately remarkably deliciously juicily love you.
Nina: (pouncing) Deeply! Deeply! You passed on deeply! Which was your word, which means that you couldn't have meant it. You're a fraud. You're probably a figment of my imagination ...
(Minghella, Truly Madly Deeply)
... and earlier ...
Algernon* (very rapidly): Cecily, ever since I first looked upon your wonderful and incomparable beauty, I have dared to love you wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly.
Cecily: I don't think you should tell me that you love me wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly. Hopelessly doesn't seem to make much sense, does it?
(Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest)
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* at this point in the play pretending to be the fictional Ernest
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