nursingly en · ADV
Etymology
From nursing + -ly.
Meanings
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With tender care; cherishingly.
Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.
[…] little red-faced man, with small sharp-looking eyes, who sat immediately opposite us and amused himself by sucking the knob of the large walking-stick which he carried nursingly in […]
1880, The Theatre, page 214:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most nursingly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more nursingly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |