Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a wailing manner; with wailing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a wailing manner.

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  • adverb With a wailing sound.

Etymologies

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wailing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • God and every day when the sun was setting behind the mountains, all the churchbells called wailingly towards heaven from hundreds of swinging throats.

    Mogens and Other Stories Anna [Translator] Grabow 1866

  • One of the best lines in Raiders of the Lost Ark comes when Indiana Jones is trapped in one of those impossible situations and the heroine asks wailingly, "What do we do now?"

    May 2006 2006

  • Again pitifully, distinctly, wailingly, came the cry of the child.

    The Way of the Wind Zoe Anderson Norris

  • The wind soughed through her dream again, pitifully, wailingly, as it had often soughed outside the dugout.

    The Way of the Wind Zoe Anderson Norris

  • In another he would have lain a crushed and shapeless mass in their wake; but as he shut his eyes for the leap there came to him distinctly, pitifully, wailingly, the cry of the child.

    The Way of the Wind Zoe Anderson Norris

  • Something in the voice hushed the sobs, and caught attention, except from Ernestine, who continued to cry wailingly.

    Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving

  • So they were silent as they rode over this green-and-violet moor, over which the curlew flew wailingly, as if complaining of this breach of their solitude.

    Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice

  • Indeed his mother often said wailingly that, if Kenneth could only find some "fine girl," and settle down, he would be the steadiest and best fellow in the world.

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • His image is the dearest plaything of a baby and yet stalks wailingly and unctuously to the dead.

    Idle Comments 1905

  • A third day and a third night he remained, and the third night he heard the wolves howling under a clear and star-filled sky, and from him there came his first cry -- a yearning, grief-filled cry that rose wailingly out of the clearing; the entreaty for his master, for Nanette, and the baby.

    Nomads of the North James Oliver Curwood 1903

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