nursingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
With tender care; cherishingly.
Example Sentences
- "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 […]"
Etymology
From nursing + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more nursingly (comparative)
most nursingly (superlative)