sighinglyadv.
In a sighing manner; with or accompanied by sighing.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > [adverb]
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [adverb] > sighing
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1402 T. Hoccleve Let. of Cupid 22 Her wordes spoken ben so syghyngly.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. cccvii/1 She answered syghynly, alas, holy fader [etc.].
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 253 Then turnd she sighingly within her bed.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 42 Christian..had no more talk but with himself, and that somtimes sighingly . View more context for this quotation
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. viii. 20 The populace, sighingly, gave my Arabella for lost.
1791 F. Burney Let. 5 Aug. in Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 22 The Statues, Busts—& Pictures, which again I sighingly quitted.
1833 A. Jameson Court Beauties Charles II (1872) 170 He was for this time seriously and sighingly in love.
1842 E. B. Browning Greek Christian Poets (1863) ii. ⁋3 To go back sighingly to the tragedy, where we shall have to sigh again.
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