wonderinglyadv.
/ˈwʌnd(ə)rɪŋli/, U.S. /ˈwənd(ə)rɪŋli/ In a wondering manner; in or with wonder.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [adverb]
wonderfullya1500
wonderingly1556
amazedly1561
astonishedly1612
agape1667
fascinatedly1848
marvellingly1871
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxii. 33 Two flies togither wondringlie..In talke betwene them selues, as folowith did saie.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xi. lxiii. 274 They seeing vncouth Men and Shippes, weare wondringly agaste.
a1736 in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxxvi. 1 They were looking on each other wonderingly, like sleepers on an empty dream.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xv. 290 I meditated wonderingly on this incident.
1881 R. L. Stevenson Some Portraits by Raeburn in Virginibus Puerisque The little child who looks wonderingly on his grandfather's watch.
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