Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a believing manner; with belief: as, to receive a doctrine believingly.

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  • adverb in a believing manner

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  • adverb in a credulous manner

Etymologies

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believing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • At one point we even read, believingly, that Serge feels "an almost sacred tingling, as though he himself had become godlike, elevated by machinery and signal code to a higher post within the overall structure of things."

    The Fear of a Failure to Communicate 2010

  • She had a couple of messups in her reading, and her “Christian” voice sounded more like a girl doing a dumb guy impression than an actual attempt to believingly evoke a character.

    PodCastle » PC029: Dead Languages 2008

  • Eastern sky, as though in chase; and then again the night, with the swift and ghostly passing of starry constellations, was all too much to view believingly.

    The House on the Borderland 2007

  • Brethren, can you look believingly on your miserable people, and not perceive them calling to you for help?

    The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

  • 'Every time we look upon our congregations, let us believingly remember that they are the purchase of Christ's blood, and therefore should be regarded by us with the deepest interest and the most tender affection.

    The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

  • ` If you had yet but a bleeding heart for sin, and could come to Christ believingly for recovery, and resign yourself to him as your Savior and

    The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

  • When I say knowingly, I mean knowing what it is to be a child of God and to be born again; and when I say believingly, I mean for the soul to believe, and that from good experience, that the work of grace is wrought in him.

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

  • And hence it is that the Spirit must be sent into the hearts of God's people for this very thing, to cry Father; it being too great a work for any man to do knowingly and believingly without it.

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

  • Less than that, however, can I understand how educated beings, even men who, thanks to their gifts and their standing, play the part of responsible leaders, not only accepted believingly these prevarications and distortions, but, with them as a basis, immediately rendered a verdict against us.

    New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various

  • Anon some wrinkled, fidgety, cogitative being in human form would add a new volume to some slope or tower of the monstrous omni-patulent mass, or some sharp-glancing youth, with teeth set unevenly on edge, would pull out a volume, look greedily and half-believingly for a few moments, return it, and slink away.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

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