[f. EXPLAIN + -ING2.] That explains or makes clear.
1850. Mrs. Browning, Poems, I. 261. Ere her last Explaining words were said.
Hence Explainingly adv.
1836. Blackw. Mag., XXXIX. 176/1. ‘Now, Sally’—and here he turned explainingly to where the mischievous little girl was standing.
1889. Sat. Rev., 14 Dec., 684/2. ‘Black Prince—the name of my horse,’ she added explainingly, ‘seems to understand me so thoroughly.’
