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Understandingly

adv

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an understanding manner; with empathy.

    "[T]he proprietor smiled understandingly."

  2. 2
    In a way that can be understood; intelligibly. obsolete

    "Garcias ab Horto writes of one whom he saw at Goa in the East Indies, that took ten drams of opium in three days; and yet consulto loquebatur, spake understandingly […]"

Adverb
  1. 1
    with understanding wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English undirstondingli, understandandly, equivalent to understanding + -ly.

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