Meanings
adverbpausingly (comparative more pausingly, superlative most pausingly)
comparative more pausingly · superlative most pausingly
- With pauses; haltingly.
This pausingly ensu'de
1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]
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