nursingly
advEtymology
From nursing + -ly.
Definitions
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 […]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for nursingly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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