assuringly

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1. In an assuring manner.

   "He won't hurt you, Miss Lloyd," he called, assuringly.

   1900, Annie Fellows Johnston, “‘Found Out’”, in The Little Colonel’s House Party, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, →OCLC, page 168

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   "Oh, yes!" said the lawyer, assuringly, "oh, yes! there's no mistake about that, there isn't the shadow of a doubt about that.

   1887, Homer Greene, Burnham Breaker

   He laid his hard, rough hand assuringly on the shoulder of the frightened child and sought to soothe her fears.

   1909, John R. Musick, The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story