adv. rare. [f. prec. + -LY2.] Correspondingly.

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c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., 351. Ech man, which wole trowe that thilk voice was seid in the eir ouȝte answeringli trowe that thilk voice was spokun by the feend.

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1865.  Ruskin, Sesame, 3. The answeringly wider spreading … of the irrigation of literature.

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