adv. [f. FEELING ppl. a. + -LY2.]
† 1. Consciously. Obs.
c. 1440. Hylton, Scala Perf. (W. de W., 1494), II. iii. All chosen soules vnder the newe testamente hathe trouthe in cryste that he is come, eyther openly or felyngly & ghostly men & wyse men haue, or elles generally as chyldern haue that dyen crystned, and other symple & lewde soules haue that arne nourysshed in the bosom of holy chirche.
† 2. With just perception, understandingly, sensibly; appropriately, to the purpose. Obs.
1382. Wyclif, Ecclus. xiii. 27. He spac felendely [L. sensate] ‘or wisely’ weel.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 1345. Who most felyngly speketh of love.
1555. Watreman, Fardle Facions, App. 306. Sensibly to giue the meaninge of those infinite threasoures with suche wordes as falle moste felinglie for them.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., II. iii. 172. Mar. I will drop in his way some obscure Epistles of loue, wherein by the colour of his beard, the shape of his legge, the manner of his gate, the expressure of his eye, forehead, and complection, he shall finde himselfe most feelingly personated.
1630. R. Johnson, Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms, etc., 628. The ancient exprobration of the Britons against the Romans … cannot more feelingly be applied than unto these Indian Spaniards.
1646. S. Page, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. li. 8. The pain of the affliction exprest so feelingly in the breaking of bones.
3. With emotion; in a manner manifesting emotion.
1593. Shaks., The Rape of Lucrece, 1492.
| Here feelingly she weeps Troyes painted woes, | |
| For sorrow, like a heavie hanging Bell, | |
| Once set on ringing, with his own waight goes, | |
| Then little strength rings out the dolefull knell. |
a. 1679. Hobbes, Rhet., III. vii. 163. Elocutions is made Decent, 1 By speaking Feelingly; that is with such Passion as is fit for the matter he is in; as Angerly in matter of Injury.
1713. Steele, Guardian, I. No. 44, 1 May, ¶ 5. If I touched upon overlooked merit, the whole assembly seemed to condole with me very feelingly upon that particular.
1807. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. III. vii. 381. The bard speaks feelingly of the wretchedness of his age, and of the fate of Aodh.
1839. Yeowell, Anc. Brit. Ch., Preface (1847), p. v. In his work he feelingly deplores the miserable state of his country, and declaims severely against the vices and habits of both clergy and laity.
4. By or from actual personal feeling, knowledge, or experience.
a. 1534. More, De Quat. Noviss., Wks. 76/2. Which if we knewe once thorowlye, and so feelyngly perceyued as we myght [etc.].
a. 1618. Raleigh, Advice of Son, in Rem. (1661), 118. In your Soul shall you feelingly find these terrible fears.
1834. Southey, Doctor, xi. (1862), 30. No man knows the value of time more feelingly than I do!
1885. J. Bonar, Malthus, I. i. 23. He wrote feelingly, as he had the malady [toothache] at the time of writing.
† 5. Sensitively. Obs.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 319. A people feelingly alive to every thing that could affect the rights for which they had been contending.
1806. Metcalfe, in Owen, Wellesley’s Desp., 808. I would wish to see our government feelingly alive to points of honor.
1806. W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem., II. 125. You seemed to me when here in frail health, and to shiver in the breeze too feelingly.
6. In such a manner as to be felt or to leave an impression behind.
1413. Lydg., Pylgr. Sowle, IV. xxvi. (1483), 72. Also I may seye more felyngly to thyne experyence as seynt austyn techeth.
1534. More, On the Passion, Wks. 1313/1. Thoughe it bee (as in dede it is) ethe inoughe for any manne to saye the worde, that he is here but a pylgryme, yet is it harde for many a man to let it fal felyngly, and sincke downe depe into his hert.
1600. Shaks., As You Like It, II. i. 11.
| These are counsellors | |
| That feelingly perswade me what I am. |
a. 1657. R. Loveday, Letters (1663), 69. But he tells me a sad story of J. W.’s sicknesse; which, believe it, does affect me as feelingly as can be requir’d from an unbiass’d friendship.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxviii. (1856), 231. But a breeze, or a pause of motion till we could raise the sextant to a star or make out some changing phasis of the ice-field, never failed to persuade us, and that feelingly, that the mercury was honest.
