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Webster 1913 Edition
Wistly
Webster 1828 Edition
Wistly
WISTLY
,adv.
Definition 2024
wistly
wistly
English
Adverb
wistly (comparative more wistly, superlative most wistly)
- (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 …
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