adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a believing manner, with belief.

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1643.  Caryl, Sacr. Covt., 36. Walke believingly.

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1824.  Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1848), I. 273. Do they believingly suppose a spiritual regenerative power … accompanying the sprinkling of a few drops of water on an infant’s face?

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1854.  G. P. R. James, Ticonderoga, III. 173. She gazed at him believingly; for hers was not a heart to doubt, and his was not a heart to be doubted.

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