Definitions
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- adverb So as to
advise .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Pao-yü observed advisingly; "and hadn't you made sport of her, would she have presumed to have said anything about you?"
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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"You had better go inside and lock the doors and windows behind you," he said, advisingly.
Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler
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All those who advisingly forbade me from your path.
Pak Tea House 2009
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Pao-yü observed advisingly; “and hadn’t you made sport of her, would she have presumed to have said anything about you?”
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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