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Definition of Searchingly
1. Adverb. In a searching manner. "`Are you really happy with him,' asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly"
Definition of Searchingly
1. Adverb. In a searching manner. ¹
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Definition of Searchingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Searchingly
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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