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staringly, adv.|ˈstɛərɪŋlɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2] 1. With a stare or open-eyed fixed gaze.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Errailler les yeux,..to open ones eyes wide, staringly. 1598Florio, Rabbuffare, ..to looke staringlie as a mad man. 1602Manningham Diary (Camden) 53 That long swaggerer..staringly demaunding what he ment..said the gent., ‘I tooke you for a May pole’. 1615Crooke Body of Man 545 Like as when we would open the eye more staringly the muscles of the forehead doe much helpe vs. 1883Harper's Mag. Oct. 805/1 [They] heard my questions staringly. †2. Wildly, frantically. Obs.
1667H. More Div. Dial. iii. xvii. (1713) 218 So staringly mad that the eye of Reason seems to have quite started out of their head. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 43 Not by talking staringly, and casting a mist before the peoples eyes. 3. In a manner that ‘stares one in the face’; glaringly.
1817–18Cobbett Resid. U.S. 316 There is in this statement something..so ridiculously and staringly untrue, that [etc.]. 1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 293 The veil is now..staringly, and strikingly transparent. 1833Cobbett Eng. Gram. xviii. §221 These are staringly absurd. 1879Stevenson Lay Morals (1911) 7 The universe..is plain, patent and staringly comprehensible. |