awaitingly

English

Etymology

From awaiting +‎ -ly.

Adverb

awaitingly (comparative more awaitingly, superlative most awaitingly)

1. (uncommon) In an awaiting manner.
   • 1897, Bret Harte, chapter I, in Three Partners or The Big Strike on Heavy Tree Hill, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], pages 70–71:

     “But you ’re in San Francisco now. Where are you stopping?” He took up a pencil and held it over a memorandum pad awaitingly.

   • 1902 October 13, R. E. Sterling, quoting a man in Texas, “Kansas Department”, in The Northwestern Miller, volume 54, number 16, Minneapolis, Minn.: The Miller Publishing Co., published 1902 October 15, page 795, column 4:

     […] hoping to hear from you soon I am yours awaitingly ⸺ ⸺.

   • 1905, Alfred T. Bryant, “Qula, v.”, in A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation, a Revised Orthography and Derivations and Cognate Words from Many Languages; […], Maritzburg, Durban: […] P. Davis & Sons, […], page 547, column 1:

     Quia, v. Sit down awaitingly (used in perf.), as men when some work is about to be done, a case to be tried, or when a person sits down at any spot awaiting the passage of somebody (ela form and ace.) expected; […]

   • 1918 January, Fannie, quotee, “No Wonder Managers Suffer from Dyspepsia!”, in Eugene V[alentine] Brewster, editor, Motion Picture Magazine, volume XIV, number 12, Brooklyn, N.Y.: The M. P. Publishing Co., page 161, column 1:

     “Awaitingly, with the sweetest anxiety, / “Fannie ⸺.”

   • 1962, Martin Heidegger, translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, Being and Time, New York, N.Y., Evanston, Ill.: Harper & Row, →LCCN, page 406:

     [T]he only way in which the making-present itself can meet up with anything unsuitable, is by already operating in such a way as to retain awaitingly that which has an involvement in something. To say that making-present gets ‘held up’ is to say that in its unity with the awaiting which retains, it diverts itself into itself more and more, […]

   • 1996, Samuel B. Mallin, “The Athletes’ Vase”, in Art Line Thought (Contributions to Phenomenology; 21), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, book II (The Minoan and the Philosophical), chapter I (Swirling Beyond Our Time: Along Minoan and Nazcan Lines), page 138:

     We can only be in many of our bodily, emotional, thinking or artistic ways if we reflex round our being altered and thrown into them by independent others. Such lines of contact reach out only by awaitingly being out there within the space of others who might enliven them.

   • 2008, Robyn Sisman, chapter 11, in A Hollywood Ending, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, page 131:

     Ed was gripped by simultaneous panic and excitement, which he quelled by walking through the flat’s narrow hallway to his sitting-room/study next door, where his computer screen glowed awaitingly.