broodingly

adv

broodingly

adv

Etymology From brooding + -ly.

1

In a brooding manner.

But he was broodingly unable to see even the most ivied tower as anything but a pile of stones till, inexplicably, the miracle of recovered hope and courage transformed him.1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 4, in World so Wide […], New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 35:

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