wishingly

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adverb

While wishing or yearning.

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Meanings

adverbwishingly (comparative more wishingly, superlative most wishingly)

comparative more wishingly · superlative most wishingly

  1. While wishing or yearning.

    Only look up, as they did that were wounded, weepingly, wishingly, pitifully, cravingly; see and sigh, look upon him whom you have pierced […]

    1841, Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey, Course of Lectures on the Scripture Types, page 305

Origin

From wishing + -ly.

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APA

wishingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wishingly

MLA

“wishingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wishingly. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wishingly,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wishingly.

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