lingeringlyadv.
/ˈlɪŋɡ(ə)rɪŋli/, U.S. /ˈlɪŋɡ(ə)rɪŋli/ In a lingering manner.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [adverb]
lateeOE
latelyOE
heavilyc1000
hoolya1340
slowlyc1384
slowa1398
sluggedlyc1450
tarryingly1530
loiteringly1547
sluggishly1565
languishingly1579
limpingly1579
lingeringly1589
tarde1598
unnimbly1607
longsomelyc1610
tardilya1616
languidly1655
heavy1701
slack1854
snailishly1889
tharfly1894
pole pole1902
weedy-slow1921
the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [adverb]
delayinglyc1475
lingeringly1589
retardately1598
dilatorily1700
unpromptly1837
procrastinatingly1847
temporizingly1847
on the back burner1963
the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adverb] > tardily or sluggishly
slacklyc960
latelyOE
heavilyc1000
hoolya1340
sluggedlyc1450
sluggishlyc1450
tarryingly1530
loiteringly1547
tediously1557
languishingly1579
limpingly1579
lingeringly1589
unnimbly1607
longsomelyc1610
tardilya1616
a-sluga1620
sluggingly1653
languidly1655
dilatorily1700
heavy1701
lagginglyc1817
laggardly1835
slack1854
slackly1884
logily1912
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adverb] > protractedly
lingeringly1589
1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 873 Lingeringly, tarde.
1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature v. 38 Not so long, so lingringly, as this macerating, massacring, murthering Famine.
a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 104 As the Flow'r which lingringly doth fade.
1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 67 Barke-bound disease..makes them [trees] live lingringly and poorely.
a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 517 Coughs, Astma's, Apoplexies, Fevers, Rhume, All that kill dead; or lingeringly consume.
1827 T. Moore Epicurean (1839) xvi. 167 Her hand parted lingeringly from mine.
1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 270 Even the best of them look lingeringly and longingly back to Europe and her legends.
1871 D. G. Rossetti Last Confession in Poems 244 Her voice was swift, yet ever the last words Fell lingeringly.
1878 J. A. Symonds Sonnets M. Angelo lxxiv Death..Who to sad souls alone comes lingeringly.
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