Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a warning manner; so as to warn; by way of notice or admonition.

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

  • adverb In a warning manner.

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  • adverb In a warning manner; in such a way as to warn

Etymologies

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warning +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Some one called warningly from the opposite bank, whereat they stood still and conferred together.

    CHAPTER 3 2010

  • "For God's sake, take the count!" one of Joe's seconds cried warningly from the edge of the ring.

    Chapter 5 2010

  • [Illustration: His jaw closed fast, -- and in the same instant his outstretched hand smashed down upon the wine glass] "Tom!" he called warningly, and he laid his hand on Blake's shoulder.

    Out of the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet 1912

  • "For God's sake, take the count!" one of Joe's seconds cried warningly from the edge of the ring.

    Chapter 5 1905

  • "Don't y 'do it," he called warningly, but she did, and boxed his ears soundly while he was getting Marc in hand again.

    Prairie Folks Hamlin Garland 1900

  • Some one called warningly from the opposite bank, whereat they stood still and conferred together.

    A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896

  • "Haplo," the Hand called warningly, casting a significant look out the porthole.

    Into the Labyrinth Hickman, Tracy 1993

  • But out on the river the fog yet lay dense; and two boats somewhere in the impenetrable whiteness were calling warningly to each other.

    Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

  • It also induces in some a perpetual good-humored irritability wherein one can slap and cuddle a child in the same instant, or shout threateningly or lovingly, call warningly and murmur encouragingly in an astonishing sequence.

    Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916

  • Wallie, breathless from running, arrived with the axe, which he handed to Mr. Hicks, who called warningly as he swung it:

    The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

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