nursingly
nursingly adverb: with tender care; cherishingly.
Adverb
nursingly (comparative more nursingly, superlative most nursingly)
- With tender care; cherishingly.
- Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.
- […] little red-faced man, with small sharp-looking eyes, who sat immediately opposite us and amused himself by sucking the knob of the large walking-stick which he carried nursingly in […]1880, The Theatre, page 214
Forms of nursingly
| comparative | more nursingly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most nursingly |
Origin of nursingly
From nursing + -ly.
Questions about nursingly
- What does nursingly mean?
- Nursingly means with tender care; cherishingly.
- What part of speech is nursingly?
- Nursingly is an adverb.
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