ˈfalteringly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a faltering manner, hesitatingly.
| 1611 Cotgr., Brutivement, brutishly, rudely..also faulteringly. 1768 Woman of Honor III. 222 He had..faulteringly acquainted me, that the keys of his closet..were under his bed's-head. 1797 Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xxvi, ‘May not a witness summon persons before the tribunal..’ continued Vivaldi, falteringly. 1852 Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. ix. (1885) 87 She ran falteringly. |