awaitingly
awaitingly adverb: in an awaiting manner.
Adverb
awaitingly (comparative more awaitingly, superlative most awaitingly)
- In an awaiting manner.
- “But you ’re in San Francisco now. Where are you stopping?” He took up a pencil and held it over a memorandum pad awaitingly.1897, Bret Harte, chapter I, in Three Partners or The Big Strike on Heavy Tree Hill, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], pages 70–71
- […] hoping to hear from you soon I am yours awaitingly ⸺ ⸺.1902 October 13, R. E. Sterling, quoting a man in Texas, “Kansas Department”, in The Northwestern Miller, volume 54, number 16, Minneapolis, Minn.: The Miller Publishing Co., published 15 October...
Examples of awaitingly in a sentence
- “Awaitingly, with the sweetest anxiety, / “Fannie ⸺.”1918 January, Fannie, quotee, “No Wonder Managers Suffer from Dyspepsia!”, in Eugene V[alentine] Brewster, editor, Motion Picture Magazine...
- [T]he only way in which the making-present itself can meet up with anything unsuitable, is by already operating in such a way as to retain awaitingly that which has an involvement in something.1962, Martin Heidegger, translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, Being and Time, New York, N.Y.; Evanston, Ill.: Harper & Row...
- Such lines of contact reach out only by awaitingly being out there within the space of others who might enliven them.1996, Samuel B. Mallin, “The Athletes’ Vase”, in Art Line Thought (Contributions to Phenomenology; 21), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic...
- Ed was gripped by simultaneous panic and excitement, which he quelled by walking through the flat’s narrow hallway to his sitting-room/study next door, where his computer screen glowed awaitingly.2008, Robyn Sisman, chapter 11, in A Hollywood Ending, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, page 131:
Forms of awaitingly
| comparative | more awaitingly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most awaitingly |
Origin of awaitingly
From awaiting + -ly.
Questions about awaitingly
- What does awaitingly mean?
- Awaitingly means in an awaiting manner.
- How do you use awaitingly in a sentence?
- “Awaitingly, with the sweetest anxiety, / “Fannie ⸺.”
- What part of speech is awaitingly?
- Awaitingly is an adverb.
Words near awaitingly in the dictionary
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