nursingly

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adverb

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.”

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Meanings

adverbnursingly (comparative more nursingly, superlative most nursingly)

comparative more nursingly · superlative most nursingly

  1. 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.

    1 more example

    […] 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

Origin

From nursing + -ly.

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APA

nursingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nursingly

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“nursingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nursingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nursingly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nursingly.

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