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Definition of Cooingly
1. in the manner of cooing doves; affectionately [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cooingly
Literary usage of Cooingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"... no bigger than a fourpenny piece, asks you " what you will please to take F
and m the nervou«ness of your throat, vou murmur; cooingly, "Turtle, ..."
2. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1863)
"Her mother kissed her cooingly as she would have kissed a baby, but she might as
well have kissed a ..."
3. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"O thou, for whose soul-soothing quiet, turtles Passion their voices cooingly 'mong
myrtles, What time thou wanderest at eventide Through sunny meadows, ..."
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