missingly

English

Etymology

missing +‎ -ly

Adverb

missingly (comparative more missingly, superlative most missingly)

1. (obsolete) With a sense of loss.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     Sir, it is three dayes since I saw the Prince: what
     his happier affayres may be, are to me vnknowne: but I
     haue (missingly) noted, he is of late much retyred from
     Court, and is lesse frequent to his Princely exercises then
     formerly he hath appeared.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “missingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)