observingly

English

Etymology

From observing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

observingly (comparative more observingly, superlative most observingly)

1. Attentively, observantly.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 83, column 2:

     There is ſome ſoule of goodneſſe in things euill, / VVould men obſeruingly diſtill it out.

   • 1989, Philip G. Hill, Our Dramatic Heritage: Volume 4, page 149:

     As Goethe had observingly read, a Frankfurt police ordinance of the fifteenth-century forbade fallen women to wear jewelry, silk, satin, or damask, and denied them the use of a pew in church.