adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a floating manner.

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1660.  W. Secker, Nonsuch Prof., 256. The tide that so floatingly brings in the ship, suddenly leaves her in the mud.

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1829.  Blackw. Mag., XXVI. Dec., 952. Blest the hand that withdraws it, the breath that sighs it floatingly aside, for the first fervid nuptial kiss!

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1857.  Chamb. Jrnl., VII. 25 April, 272/2, ‘Day.’

        And spectral form revealed mysteriously
  Down to her ghostly middle, and the rest
All lost in pearly mist, that floatingly
  Seems her gray garments trailing low on Earth’s expansive breast.

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