Wishfully

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².]

  1.  In a wishful manner; with desire; longingly.

  Most commonly qualifying look or equivalent; sometimes app. associated with wistfully.

1598.  Chapman, Iliad, IV. [VIII.] 497. All did wishfullie expect the siluer-throned morne.

1722.  De Foe, Col. Jack, ii. Well, young gentleman,… you look wishfully.

1773.  Boswell, Tour Hebr. (1785), 98. I was weary of this day, and began to think wishfully of being again in motion.

1791.  Burns, Bonie Wee Thing, 5. Wishfully I look and languish In that bonie face o’ thine.

1831.  Southey, in Corr. w. C. Bowles (1881), 272. I am looking daily and wishfully for your little book.

1878.  Mrs. Stowe, Poganuc P., i. Dolly still hung about wishfully.

  † 2.  According to wish or desire. Obs.

1602.  Middleton, etc., Phœnix, III. i. G 2 b. I doubt now We shall not gaine accesse vnto your loue or she to vs. Fid. Most wishfully here she comes.

  So Wishfulness.

1801.  Southey, in Robberds, Mem. W. Taylor (1843), I. 371. I expect with some wishfulness your remarks on the second volume.

1863.  Trollope, Rachel Ray, I. 170. The longing loving wishfulness which used to make so many of her questions sweet to her mother’s ears.

1892.  Sat. Rev., 8 Oct., 422/1. A sweet wishfulness to please.