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Webster 1913 Edition


Wistly

Wist′ly

,
adv.
[See
Wistful
.]
Attentively; observingly.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Wistly

WISTLY

,
adv.
Earnestly.

Definition 2024


wistly

wistly

English

Adverb

wistly (comparative more wistly, superlative most wistly)

  1. (obsolete) In an intent manner, intently; with close attention, attentively
    • 2007, Peter Marshall, Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story, Oxford Univ. Press, ISBN 9780199273713:
      … which makes him eye this gentlewoman a little more wistly