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gropingly

adverb

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Etymology: Etymology tree English groping Middle English -ly English -ly English gropingly From groping + -ly.

  1. In a groping manner; blindly.

    […] all other sects of Philosophers, have but like men in Cimmerian darkenesse, gropingly stumbled, now and then, upon the nature of the true God-head […]

    1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Letter to Robert Bridges dated 27 April, 1881 in Claude Colleer Abbott (editor), Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges, Oxford University Press, 1935, p. 125, I am gropingly making my way into harmony and may come to harmonise some of my airs.