adv. [f. STAGGERING ppl. a. + -LY2.] In a staggering manner; unsteadily, totteringly; also (rarely) so as to stagger or shock.

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1575.  Gascoigne, Posies, Jocasta, III. i. To stay our state that staggringly doth stand.

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1682.  Sir T. Browne, Chr. Mor., xxx. (1716), 36. While we are but staggeringly evil, we are not left without … merciful interventions, to recal us unto our selves.

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1878.  ‘Ouida,’ Friendship, ii. Staggeringly and audaciously impossible.

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1898.  B. Gregory, Side Lights Confl. Meth., 489. We bore up staggeringly against wind and tide.

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