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smartingly en · ADV

Etymology

From smarting + -ly.

Meanings

1. So as to smart; with a stinging pain.
   • The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even be conscious of all that he had lost. 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 124–125:

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