adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a stirring manner.
1. So as to stir to action or emotion; rousingly, excitingly, movingly.
1382. Wyclif, Ps. xciii. [xciv.] 4. Thei shul steringli seyn [1388 Thei schulen telle out; Vulg. effabuntur], and speke wickidnesse.
1866. Reader, 26 May, 524. It is in the portrayal of the more stirringly emotional that his dramatic genius is most at home.
1900. P. C. Simpson, Fact of Christ, vi. 185. We men to whom this life calls so stirringly and strongly and sweetly.
2. With brisk movement, actively. rare–1.
1889. Hardwicke’s Sci.-Gossip, XXV. 199. I … found them stirringly busy; and in the nest were some sixty or seventy pupæ, and six or seven female ants.
