answeringlyadv.

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 188 No dede is allowid..saue which is doon answeryngly to þe doom of resoun.

c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 43 Þe movyng power..sendiþ forþ..suche spiritis..forto make movyng of þe bodi..answeryngli to þe desijr.

1677 F. Bampfield All in One 31 This was the manner of singing of some Psalms, when the same words which do close a foregoing part of a Spiritual Hymn, are answeringly repeated at the end of every due pause of that Song.

1844 Family of Seisers II. 34/1 ‘There is a body of sterling integrity in that board of which strangers to our mode of doing business have not the least conception.’ ‘And never will have,’ said the Captain, inquiringly. ‘It may be,’ said Mr. Porker, answeringly.

1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies i. 3 The answeringly wider spreading..of the irrigation of literature.

1881 E. J. Simcox Autobiogr. of Shirtmaker 19 Jan. in C. M. Fulmer & M. E. Barfield Monument to Memory of George Eliot (1998) 147 I wrote afterward a note of thanks and something else to Mrs. Congreve, who answers, very answeringly, and ends ‘surely we shall be friends’.

1896 Idler Nov. 494 He..hailed and waved his hand: When, lo! a cry came answeringly from out of the frozen land.

1917 M. MacLane I, Mary MacLane 164 My heartfelt self that deeply loves a friend, and gives of its depths, and thrills answeringly to other depths, is not like this book.

1989 G. Steiner Real Presences 229 I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose ‘nerve and blood’ are at peace in sceptical rationality. We must read as if.

2000 New Yorker (Nexis) 15 May 98 The women jump into the grape-pressing tub and grind, grind, grind..while their bosoms vibrate answeringly.