Definitions

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  • adverb So as to quest; with curiosity, desire to search, etc.

Etymologies

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questing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • She raised her hand to her lips, touching them questingly as though in search of the physical imprint of his.

    A Time to Dream Jordan, Penny 1991

  • She raised her hand to her lips, touching them questingly as though in search of the physical imprint of his.

    A Time to Dream Jordan, Penny 1991

  • Her eyes, which for centuries had looked questingly forth from the canvas, now drooped and rested upon the baby.

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

  • Her eyes, which for centuries had looked questingly forth from the canvas, now drooped and rested upon the baby.

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Various 1915

  • Perhaps not uncoincidentally this is their lowest budgeted album since 2001, and perhaps as such saw them abandon the over-orchestration and over thought out nature of the vast majority of their post-Creation work and remind themselves that at heart they were and are as groove-laden and questingly offbeat as they should be, with no desire to be taken that seriously.

    Sweeping The Nation 2009

  • What happens in normal embryonic development, according to Sperry’s interpretation, is that axons long ‘wires’, each one a narrow, tubular extension of a single nerve cell grow questingly out from the spinal cord, sniffing like a dog for belly skin.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • What happens in normal embryonic development, according to Sperry’s interpretation, is that axons long ‘wires’, each one a narrow, tubular extension of a single nerve cell grow questingly out from the spinal cord, sniffing like a dog for belly skin.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

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