Definition of Searchingly

1. Adverb. In a searching manner. "`Are you really happy with him,' asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly"

Partainyms: Searching

Definition of Searchingly

1. Adverb. In a searching manner. ¹

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Definition of Searchingly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Searchingly

search warrant
search warrants
searchability
searchable
searchableness
searched
searcher
searcher beetle
searcheress
searcheresses
searchers
searches
searcheth
searching
searching fire
searchingly
searchingness
searchings
searchless
searchlight
searchlights
searcht
searcing
seare
seared
searedness
searer
searest
searing
searing iron

Literary usage of Searchingly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annotations Upon Popular Hymns by Charles Seymour Robinson (1893)
"I honestly and sorrowfully believe there is no person in any intelligent community, informed enough to understand how searchingly the law of God lays hold ..."

2. The Helpful Science by St. George Jackson Mivart (1895)
"keenly and searchingly scrutinized in the light which four centuries of patient and laborious work of physical science have obtained for us. ..."

3. Our Immortality by Daniel Pomeroy Rhodes (1919)
"Undoubtedly, if you have persuaded a few thoughtful and enterprising persons to put these questions searchingly to themselves and to one another, ..."

4. Posthumous Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1884)
"He often looked at me long and searchingly, as if he wanted to read in my soul. Suddenly he asked,— " And have you left nobody you love behind in Berlin? ..."

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