anxiously

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ-der. Proto-Italic *anɣō Latin angō Latin ānxiusbor. English anxious Middle English -ly English -ly English anxiously From anxious + -ly.

1. In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

   “He anxiously awaited the arrival of his child.”

   “He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.[…]But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again[…]she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.”