Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By waiting; as if waiting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By waiting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb So as to
wait ;hesitatingly orloiteringly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She felt crushed, overwhelmed, but she could not remain silent; she had to speak; the eyes of those who were near were fixed upon her waitingly.
Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice
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Drake looked at her as he never thought that he could have looked at her -- calmly, waitingly.
Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice
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The two women whose yards adjoined the Misses Marions 'yard came down to the separating fences and leaned their arms on the paling rails waitingly; the third woman moved up to the corner of her yard which was nearest the Misses Marion.
Sally of Missouri 1905
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Where the ridge road dropped down close to the pale river at a dip in the hills, Steering overtook the tramp-boy, hallooed to him, and watched him, as he turned his pony about and sat waitingly.
Sally of Missouri 1905
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Steering started now and again and held his head waitingly.
Sally of Missouri 1905
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The Marrow minister leaned his head on his hand and looked waitingly at the young man.
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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