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Etymology

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wishing +‎ -ly

Adverb

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wishingly (comparative more wishingly, superlative most wishingly)

  1. While wishing or yearning.
    • 1841, Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey, Course of Lectures on the Scripture Types, page 305:
      Only look up, as they did that were wounded, weepingly, wishingly, pitifully, cravingly; see and sigh, look upon him whom you have pierced []