wishingly
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From
wishing
+
-ly
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Adverb
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wishingly
(
comparative
more
wishingly
,
superlative
most
wishingly
)
While
wishing
or
yearning
.
1841
, Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey,
Course of Lectures on the Scripture Types
, page
305
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Only look up, as they did that were wounded, weepingly,
wishingly
, pitifully, cravingly; see and sigh, look upon him whom you have pierced
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