nursingly

adv

Etymology

From nursing + -ly.

Definitions

  1. With tender care

    With tender care; cherishingly.

    • Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.
    • […] little red-faced man, with small sharp-looking eyes, who sat immediately opposite us and amused himself by sucking the knob of the large walking-stick which he carried nursingly in […]

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