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smartingly

adv

Etymology

From smarting + -ly.

  1. inherited from smeortung
  2. inherited from smertyng
  3. suffixed as smartingly — “smarting + ly”

Definitions

  1. So as to smart

    So as to smart; with a stinging pain.

    • The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even be conscious of all that he had lost.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA