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feelingly, adv.|ˈfiːlɪŋlɪ| [f. feeling ppl. a. + -ly2.] †1. Consciously. Obs.
c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. iii, All chosen Soules..hathe trouthe in cryste..openly and felyngly as..wyse men haue, or elles generally as chyldren haue. †2. With just perception, understandingly, sensibly; appropriately, to the purpose. Obs.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xiii. 27 He spac felendely [L. sensate] ‘or wisely’ weel. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1345 Who most felyngly speketh of love. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions App. 306 Sensibly to giue the meaninge of those infinite threasoures with suche wordes as falle moste felinglie for them. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. ii. iii. 172 He shall finde himselfe most feelingly personated. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 628 The ancient exprobration of the Britons against the Romans..cannot more feelingly be applied than unto these Indian Spaniards. 1646S. Page in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. li. 8 The pain of the affliction exprest so feelingly in the breaking of bones. 3. With emotion; in a manner manifesting emotion.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 1492 Here feelingly she weeps Troys painted woes. a1679Hobbes Rhet. iii. vii. (1681) 108 By speaking Feelingly; that is, with such Passion as is fit for the matter he is in. 1713Steele Guardian I. No. 44 ⁋5 The whole assembly seemed to condole with me very feelingly. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. vii. 381 The bard speaks feelingly of the wretchedness of his age. 1839J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Ch. Pref. (1847) 5 He feelingly deplores the miserable state of his country. 4. By or from actual personal feeling, knowledge, or experience.
a1534More De Quat. Noviss. Wks. 76/2 Which if we..so feelyngly perceyued as we myght [etc.]. a1618Raleigh Advice of Son in Rem. (1661) 118 In your Soul shall you feelingly find these terrible fears. 1834Southey Doctor xi. (1862) 30 No man knows the value of time more feelingly than I do. 1885J. Bonar Malthus i. i. 23 He wrote feelingly, as he had the malady [toothache] at the time of writing. †5. Sensitively. Obs.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 319 A people feelingly alive to every thing that could affect the rights for which they had been contending. 1806Metcalfe in Owen Wellesley's Desp. 808, I would wish to see our government feelingly alive to points of honor. 1806W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. II. 125 You seemed to me..to shiver in the breeze too feelingly. 6. In such a manner as to be felt or to leave an impression behind.
1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle iv. xxvi. (1483) 72 Also I may seye more felyngly to thyne experyence as seynt austyn techeth. 1534More On the Passion Wks. 1313/1 Thoughe it bee..ethe inoughe for any manne to saye the worde..yet is it harde for many a man to let it fal felyngly, and sincke downe depe into his hert. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. i. 11 These are counsellors That feelingly perswade me what I am. a1657R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 69 J. W.'s sicknesse..does affect me as feelingly as can be requir'd from an unbiass'd friendship. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxviii. (1856) 231 But a breeze..never failed to persuade us, and that feelingly, that the mercury was honest. |