condolingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]condolingly (comparative more condolingly, superlative most condolingly)
- In a condoling manner.
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 226:
- "But I forgot: yer not one ov ther stitchin' sort, are yer, Lovey? An' them deear liddle 'an's wur never made fer work; but" condolingly, "never mind, I'm kintent wi' yer."
- By means of condolence.