observingly

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English

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Etymology

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From observing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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observingly (comparative more observingly, superlative most observingly)

  1. Attentively, observantly.
    • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 83, column 2:
      There is ſome ſoule of goodneſſe in things euill, / VVould men obſeruingly diſtill it out.
    • 1989, Philip G. Hill, Our Dramatic Heritage: Volume 4, page 149:
      As Goethe had observingly read, a Frankfurt police ordinance of the fifteenth-century forbade fallen women to wear jewelry, silk, satin, or damask, and denied them the use of a pew in church.