adv. [-LY2.] In a lingering manner.
1589. Rider, Bibl. Scholast., 873. Lingeringly, tarde.
1631. R. H., Arraignm. Whole Creature, v. 38. Not so long, so lingringly, as this macerating, massacring, murthering Famine.
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Poems, Wks. (1711), 24/1. As the flow’r which lingringly doth fade.
1657. Austen, Fruit Trees, I. 73. Barke bound disease makes trees live lingringly and poorely.
a. 1687. Cotton, On Tobacco, 72, Poems (1689), 517. Coughs, Astmas, Apoplexies, Fevers, Rhume, All that kill dead; or lingeringly consume.
1827. Moore, Epicur., xvi. (1839), 167. Her hand parted lingeringly from mine.
1859. Kingsley, Misc. (1860), I. 270. Even the best of them look lingeringly and longingly back to Europe and her legends.
1871. Rossetti, Poems, Last Confession, 244. Her voice was swift, yet ever the last words Fell lingeringly.
1878. Symonds, Sonnets M. Angelo, lxxiv. Death … Who to sad souls alone comes lingeringly.
