Nursingly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 With tender care; cherishingly.
"Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers."
Example
More examples"Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers."
Etymology
From nursing + -ly.
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