nursingly
nursingly · more nursingly · most nursingly
With tender care; cherishinglyWith tender care; cherishingly.
Meaning
1 sensesWith 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.
Origin
From nursing + -ly.From nursing + -ly.
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Forms
more nursingly, most nursingly| Comparative | more nursingly Lesson |
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| Superlative | most nursingly |
regular
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Adverbs of manner — Because it is an -ly adverb
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.