wonderingly

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English wondering Middle English -ly English -ly English wonderingly From wondering + -ly.

1. In a wondering manner; with wonderment.

   “The flowers that Florence held to her breast began to fall when she heard those words, so wonderingly spoken.”

   “1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaie & Co., Volume I, Phase the First, Chapter 4, p. 50, The poor creature looked wonderingly round at the night, at the lantern, at their two figures, as if he could not believe that at that hour, when every living thing was intended to be in shelter and at rest, he was called upon to go out and labour.”