objectingly
English
Etymology
objecting + -ly
Adverb
objectingly (not comparable)
- With objection or disagreement.
- 1867, Giovanni Ruffini, A Quiet Nook in the Jura, Leipzig, Germany: Bernhard Tauchnitz, OCLC 1011816721, page 43:
- Still Frantz's head moved objectingly.
- 1870, William Gelston Bates, The Westfield Jubilee: A Report of the Celebration at Westfield, Mass., on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town, October 6, 1869, with the Historical Address of the Hon. William G. Bates, and Other Speeches and Poems of the Occasion with an Appendix, Containing Historical Documents of Local Interest, Westfield, Massachusetts: Clark & Story, OCLC 1007187399, page 95:
- When it was objectingly asked, “Then there are but five of you, are there?” she still insisted, “Yes, we are seven.”
- 1877, Talbot W. Chambers; Edward Tanjore Corwin, Centennial Discourses: A Series of Sermons Delivered in the Year 1876, New York: Board of publication of the Reformed Church in America, OCLC 1176103441, page 288:
- Nor must any one here say to me, objectingly, “I have never so preached on the catechism nor have I so understood the duty.”
Synonyms
- disagreeingly
Derived terms
- unobjectingly