1611. Cotgr., Brutivement, brutishly, rudely … also faulteringly.
1768. Woman of Honor, III. 222. He had … faulteringly acquainted me, that the keys of his closet … were under his bed’s-head.
1797. Mrs. Radcliffe, Italian, xxvi. But may not a witness summon others before the tribunal of the Inquisition? continued Vivaldi, falteringly.
1852. Hawthorne, Blithedale Rom., ix. (1885), 87. Setting buoyantly forth, therefore, as if no rival less swift than Atalanta could compete with her, she ran falteringly, and often tumbled on the grass.
