adoringlyadv.

1624 E. Bolton Nero Caesar xxviii. 202 Nero vnwillingly brookt any man, who might bee thought to stand in the same line of honour for those faculties, or did not adoringly admire his.

1695 E. Harley Scriptural & Rational Acct. Christian Relig. 107 The Doctrine of the blessed Trinity is..necessary to be believed, and adoringly received in Love as the Principle of Felicity to Intellectual Creatures.

1743 A. Harrison New Year's Gift Defended 34 May we not adoringly say, O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!

?1825 W. F. Hook in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. W. F. Hook (1878) I. 57 Your most devoted, adoringly affectionate Nephew.

1844 Vest. Creat. (ed. 3) 240 Such a degree of wisdom..as we only can attribute adoringly to the one Eternal and Unchangeable.

1893 O. Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan ii. 56 From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly!

1914 H. A. Dickinson German Masters of Art xxxvi. 260 On the earth below were the twelve wondering disciples, gazing up into heaven adoringly, prayerfully.

1971 Times 26 Jan. 17/1 One mother gazed adoringly at her brat while he crushed one of my most expensive models to pieces.

2002 Smash Hits 20 Mar. 54/1 We swoon over his puppy dog eyes, sigh adoringly when he smiles and, when he sings, millions of hearts flutter.