admiringlyadv.

1606 E. Forset Compar. Disc. Bodies Nat. & Politique 26 What hath for strangenesse a noueltie, for worth a dignitie, and for attayning a difficultie, is more desiringly, and more admiringly esteemed.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 45 Admiringly my Liege, at first I stucke my choice vpon her. View more context for this quotation

1709 T. Masters Serm. preach'd on November 22 (1710) 18 Yet for all this we will be so far from glorying, that we humbly and admiringly ascribe it to the Lord of Hosts.

1759 E. Kimber tr. C. P. J. de Crébillon Happy Orphans II. 116 That Virtue, that Wisdom, which my raptured Soul has so admiringly contemplated.

1823 T. Moore Loves of Angels ii. 48 When I've seen her look above At some bright star admiringly.

1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 217 Two such men must have looked admiringly on each other's great deeds.

1921 N.Y. Tribune 21 July 10/5 ‘Gee, Frankie,’ he sighed admiringly, ‘you sure are a knockout.’

1977 J. C. Campbell Contemp. Japanese Budget Politics (1980) 75 Correspondents from the British Economist..wrote admiringly of the Japanese fiscal system.

2005 S. Rushdie Shalimar the Clown 8 The old Central and East European ladies were..staring at Max, admiringly.