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pettingly en · ADV

Etymology

From petting + -ly.

Meanings

1. So as to pet or cajole.
   • "It is to the death," said Akela. "Thou hast never met the dhole—the Red Killer. Even the Striped One—"¶ "Aowa! Aowa!" said Mowgli pettingly. "I have killed one striped ape, and sure am I in my stomach that Shere Khan would have left his own mate for meat to the dhole if he had winded a pack across three ranges[…]" 1906, Rudyard Kipling, “Red Dog”, in The Second Jungle Book, New York: The Century Co., page 247:

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