adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a wondering manner; in or with wonder.

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1556.  J. Heywood, Spider & F., lxii. 33. Two flies togither wondringlie … In talke betwene them selues, as folowith did saie.

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1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., XI. lxii. (1612), 272. They, seeing vncouth Men, and Shippes, weare wondringly agaste.

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a. 1736.  in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. cxxvi. 1. They were looking on each other wonderingly, like sleepers on an empty dream.

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1847.  C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, xv. i meditated wonderingly on this incident.

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1881.  Stevenson, Virg. Puerisque, Some Portraits by Raeburn. The little child who looks wonderingly on his grandfather’s watch.

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