objectingly

When it was objectingly asked, “Then there are but five of you, are there?” she still insisted, “Yes, we are seven.”

1870, William Gelston Bates, The Westfield Jubilee: A Report of the Celebration at Westfield, Mass., on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town, October 6, 1869, with the Historical Address of the Hon. William G. Bates, and Other Speeches and Poems of the Occasion with an Appendix, Containing Historical Documents of Local Interest, Westfield, Massachusetts: Clark & Story, →OCLC, page 95

Nor must any one here say to me, objectingly, “I have never so preached on the catechism nor have I so understood the duty.”

1877, Talbot W. Chambers, Edward Tanjore Corwin, Centennial Discourses: A Series of Sermons Delivered in the Year 1876, New York: Board of publication of the Reformed Church in America, →OCLC, page 288