Nursingly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 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

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"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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