adv. [f. ENDEARING ppl. a. + -LY2.] In an endearing manner.

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a. 1711.  Ken, Edmund, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 202. Each he endearingly salutes.

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1836.  E. Howard, R. Reefer, lxi. We patted them endearingly with our hands.

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1876.  Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. ix. 286. Who called him endearingly his son.

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