Caressingly
[kә'resiŋli]
Definition
(ad.) In caressing manner.
Checker: Witt
Examples
- As Celia bent over the paper, Dorothea put her cheek against her sister's arm caressingly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Margaret sat down by her mother, and took her unresisting head on her breast, bending her own soft cheeks down caressingly to touch her face. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I can understand it all,' said Margaret, leaning up caressingly against her mother's side, and kissing her hand. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Checker: Witt