adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a sobbing manner; with sobs.

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1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, s.v. Interruptus, To speake sobbingly.

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1570.  J. Phillip, in Farr, Sel. Poet. Eliz., II. 527. They … sobbingly did shewe by sighes Their straunge tormenting paynes.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xxii. (1632), 1123. [He] sobbingly desired them to be content.

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1831.  Blackw. Mag., XXX. 717/1. He answered, sobbingly, ‘My boy has only done his duty.’

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1884.  J. Parker, Apost. Life, III. 21. His heart arose to tell what it was then able only sobbingly to say.

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