startingly

English

Etymology

From starting +‎ -ly.

Adverb

startingly (comparative more startingly, superlative most startingly)

1. By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 57:

     VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly.

References

• “startingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.