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Definition of Longingly
1. Adverb. In a yearning manner. "He spent the rest of the act gazing longingly over my right shoulder at the illuminated word `Exit'"
Definition of Longingly
1. adv. With longing.
Definition of Longingly
1. Adverb. In a longing manner, with desire, yearningly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Longingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Longingly
Literary usage of Longingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sabbath-School Hymnal; a Collection of Songs, Services and Responsive by Isaac S. Moses (1906)
"1 longingly my soul is soaring (Tune No. 110.) Upward, 0 my God, tow'rd Thee;
All Thy boundless grace adoring, Ever precious 'tis to me. ..."
2. A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism by Truman J. Spencer (1891)
"... ere chilling touch of Winter's hand, He speeds away, my heart, to happier days
Reverting, longingly o'erleaps the sundering sea and strand, ..."
3. Wagner and His Isolde by Richard Wagner, Gustav Kobbé (1905)
"I LOOK longingly TOWARDS NIRVANA " All is foreign, and often I look longingly
toward the land of Nirvana, but Nirvana soon turns into " Tristan. ..."
4. Karl Marx; Biographical Memoirs by Wilhelm Liebknecht (1901)
"We were alive, and we did not have to look up longingly to the upper world—we
looked proudly down on the world from our sweet- scented asphodel meadow—on ..."
5. Short Patent Sermons by Elbridge Gerry Paige (1845)
"But you, my friends, are not all lawyers; so I advise you not to snap rashly at
the devil's shilling, nor hang longingly round it, or you may get hooked up ..."
6. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1896)
"... go," and we turn longingly to the chemists and inquire if something cannot be
produced that will kill the insects and spare our feathered friends. ..."
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