[f. WEEPING ppl. a. + -LY2.] In a weeping manner.

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1340.  Ayenb., 192. Huet yefþe is þet … þet þe on nimþ gledliche and þe oþer hit lyest wepindeliche?

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c. 1450.  Lovelich, Merlin, 7205. Ful tendirly the teres he dide down lete, and so wepyngly he torned ageyn.

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1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, Lachrymose,… weepyngly: as though one wepte.

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1597.  Shaks., Lover’s Compl., 207. Their kind acceptance wepingly beseecht.

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1621.  Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 76. Thy sap doth weepingly bewray thy paine.

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a. 1700.  B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Mawdlin, weepingly Drunk.

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1876.  Miss Broughton, Joan, II. I. xxx. 252–3. It is four months and a bit since Wolferstan went—since, weepingly, his love said to him, ‘God keep you, Anthony!’

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1890.  W. Clark Russell, Ocean Trag., II. xxv. 259. My mind revolving … blackly and weepingly.

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