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  • adverb in a chanting manner

Etymologies

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chanting +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Sylvia did not answer, every nerve bent on getting Camilla into safety, but a little red-headed boy from the second grade, who could scarcely talk plainly, burst out chantingly, pointing his dirty forefinger at Camilla:

    The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • She says over the words, cooingly, chantingly, or frantically, as the expression marks, to which she seems to act, demand.

    Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905

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