Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a hovering manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a hovering manner.

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  • adverb While hovering; so as to hover.

Etymologies

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hovering +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • A Sister appeared at the door of the ward and seeing us together paused hoveringly.

    The Red Planet William John Locke 1896

  • Rising from the thick moss and jgrass which quilted over the grave of 'th' owld Squire, 'Maryllia's father, the bird soared hoveringly aloft into the sun-warmed February air, -- and by one common impulse the villagers looked up, watching the quivering of its wings.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • At the same moment a number of other faces and forms shone hoveringly out of the Ring; one I noticed like an exquisitely lovely woman, with floating hair and clear, earnest, unfathomable eyes.

    A Romance of Two Worlds Marie Corelli 1889

  • Rising from the thick moss and jgrass which quilted over the grave of 'th' owld Squire, 'Maryllia's father, the bird soared hoveringly aloft into the sun-warmed February air, -- and by one common impulse the villagers looked up, watching the quivering of its wings.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Rising from the thick moss and jgrass which quilted over the grave of 'th' owld Squire, 'Maryllia's father, the bird soared hoveringly aloft into the sun-warmed February air, -- and by one common impulse the villagers looked up, watching the quivering of its wings.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • The morning mists rose hoveringly, paused awhile, and then lightly rolled away, disclosing one picture after another of exquisite sylvan beauty, -- every living thing took up anew its burden of work and pleasure for the day, and

    The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889

  • When the surveyor returned to the rear train, Claude was in a corner seat gazing pensively through the window and out across the wide, backward-flying, purpling green cane-fields of St. Mary, to where on the far left the live-oaks of Bayou Teche seemed hoveringly to follow on the flank of their whooping and swaggering railway-train.

    Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884

  • Flora, closest by, sprang crouching to the rescue, but recoiled as the kneeling girl leaned hoveringly over the mementos and with distended eyes and an arm thrust forward cried aloud, "No! No! No-o!"

    Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

  • "Is it so?" asked the old soldier, as his hand hoveringly passed above the coins.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "Is it so?" asked the old soldier, as his hand hoveringly passed above the coins.

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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