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observingly

adverb

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adv

Etymology: From observing + -ly.

  1. Attentively, observantly.

    There is ſome ſoule of goodneſſe in things euill, / VVould men obſeruingly diſtill it out.

    As Goethe had observingly read, a Frankfurt police ordinance of the fifteenth-century forbade fallen women to wear jewelry, silk, satin, or damask, and denied them the use of a pew in church.