appreciatingly love

Definitions

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  • adverb In an appreciating manner; with appreciation.

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  • adverb Appreciatively, with appreciation: in an appreciating manner.

Etymologies

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From appreciating +‎ -ly.

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Examples

  • They walked to the castellated monastery of San Basilio, where in the chapel of Saint Nilus they saw the celebrated frescoes of Domenichino, and gazed at them tranquilly and not quite so appreciatingly as they would have done before dinner.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various

  • He pulls his purple moustache and looks appreciatingly at Iris, who never sees him, as it should seem.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

  • Holding aloft the Bible, the true standard of the cross, they rallied the ignorant and uncivilized natives appreciatingly around it, more worthily and long before our famous explorers decorated the North Pole with the American flag.

    The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger

  • Mr. Eliot, in his "Survey of the Needs of Education," speaks appreciatingly of his father's having caused him to learn carpentry and wood-turning.

    The Women of Tomorrow 1910

  • He beseeches the Lord that he may have the right angle of vision, and that he may survey everything appreciatingly from the standpoint of the Almighty.

    The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer 1817-1893 1907

  • Ailworth nodded appreciatingly, now and then, and Doak even slapped his knee once and giggled aloud.

    The New Boy at Hilltop Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

  • The latter shook hands cordially, and allowed his gaze to travel appreciatingly over Joel's five feet eight inches of bone and muscle.

    The Half-Back Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

  • Framed against the black background of the hall, his dark, rather handsome face clearly revealed as he fronted the window, his black, audacious eyes fixed appreciatingly upon the lady, stood "Black Bart" Hawley.

    Keith of the Border Randall Parrish 1890

  • And I consider it to have been no small indication of the capacity of my wife's intelligence, that she so clearly and appreciatingly recognised and measured the distance between her friend's intellect and her own.

    What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887

  • Fitz crushed the sugar in his glass, remarked that there was not the slightest doubt of _his_ being present, winked at me appreciatingly over the edge of the tumbler, rubbed his paunch slowly with one hand, and with eyes upcast took another sip of the mixture.

    Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

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