Anxiously

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In an anxious manner, with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

1673.  Ladies Call., I. v. § 45. 115. ’Twill be impossible for her to be very anxiously careful about her garments.

a. 1700.  Dryden, Imit. Horace. Thou … what the Gallic arms will do, Art anxiously inquisitive to know.

1824.  Dibdin, Libr. Comp., 233. Never was a history more anxiously expected.

1875.  Howells, Foregone Concl., 1. He peered anxiously about him.