Where does freezingly come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

freezingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"It was on the tip of her tongue to call her a poll parrot (Mrs. Kingdom had said nothing but 'dear me' repeatedly and freezingly)."
"‘Those gents,’ said the waitress freezingly, ‘be commercial travellers.’"

From Middle English freesyngly, equivalent to freezing + -ly.

more freezingly (comparative) most freezingly (superlative)

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