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breathlessly, adv.|ˈbrɛθlɪslɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a breathless manner; with caught or suspended breath; in breathless suspense.
1837Lytton Athens II. 565 Sophocles..carries on the passion of the spectators to wait breathlessly the moment when Orestes shall be discovered. 1841J. W. Orderson Creol. xiii. 131 ‘Ah’! he exclaimed breathlessly. 1861W. Collins Dead Secr. 238 Looking stedfastly, speechlessly, breathlessly, at her blind husband. |