feelingly

From feeling + -ly.

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feelingly (comparative more feelingly, superlative most feelingly)

1. In a feeling 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 235:

     Vainly did he feelingly paint the perfumed love passages of the passionate pair.

   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:

     I asked him, and he replied with cheerful impenitence that he had hired them in the open market for one rupee eight, adding feelingly that he would willingly have given twice as much to qualify for my honourable service.