nursingly

English

Etymology

From nursing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

nursingly (comparative more nursingly, superlative most nursingly)

  1. With tender care; cherishingly.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of John Ruskin to this entry?)
    Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.
    • 1880, The Theatre, page 214:
      […] little red-faced man, with small sharp-looking eyes, who sat immediately opposite us and amused himself by sucking the knob of the large walking-stick which he carried nursingly in […]
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