adv. [f. ADORING a. + -LY2.] In an adoring manner; with adoration, or ardent admiration.

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1824–5.  Life of Dean Hook, I. 57. Your most devoted adoringly affectionate nephew.

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1844.  Vest. Creat. (ed. 3), 240. Such a degree of wisdom … as we only can attribute adoringly to the one Eternal and Unchangeable.

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1859.  Masson, Milton, I. 438. They appear, dance round him adoringly.

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