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smartingly

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Etymology

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From smarting +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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smartingly (comparative more smartingly, superlative most smartingly)

  1. So as to smart; with a stinging pain.
    • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
      The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even be conscious of all that he had lost.
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