observingly

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adverb

Attentively, observantly.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adverbobservingly (comparative more observingly, superlative most observingly)

comparative more observingly · superlative most observingly

  1. Attentively, observantly.

    There is ſome ſoule of goodneſſe in things euill, / VVould men obſeruingly diſtill it out.

    1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 83, column 2
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    As Goethe had observingly read, a Frankfurt police ordinance of the fifteenth-century forbade fallen women to wear jewelry, silk, satin, or damask, and denied them the use of a pew in church.

    1989, Philip G. Hill, Our Dramatic Heritage: Volume 4, page 149

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbin an observant manner

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Origin

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Chicago

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