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Definition of Musingly
1. Adverb. In a reflective manner. "`It's funny about that bar,' he said musingly"
Definition of Musingly
1. adv. In a musing manner.
Definition of Musingly
1. Adverb. In a musing manner. ¹
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Definition of Musingly
1. in a pensive manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Musingly
Literary usage of Musingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Mr. John A. Rice's Library: To be Sold by Auction on Monday by John Asaph Rice (1870)
"... musingly to Ponder, and bethink themselves, what is the Tendency,)and will
certainly be the sad Issue, of sundry unchristian and crooked I wayes, ..."
2. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"... Through thy precincts have musingly trod, As they girded their spirits, or
deepened the streams That make glad the fair City of God. ..."
3. Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln: A Story of a Picture by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (2000)
"... musingly, if this was official dignity as President. "No," replied Judge
Bates, "that is of little consequence. His deficiency is in the element of will ..."
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