Meanings
comparative more observingly · superlative most observingly
- 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 21 more example
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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