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English
Etymology
From panting + -ly.
Adverb
pantingly (comparative more pantingly, superlative most pantingly)
- While, or as if, panting; eagerly, breathlessly.
1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain , “ C. Concerning a Frightful Assassination that was never Consummated.”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company , published 1872, →OCLC, page 581:This same man, pantingly threatened me with permanent disfiguring mayhem, if ever again I should introduce his name into print,
2007 January 19, Janet Maslin, “Putting Hitler on the Couch, and Finding Bees”, in New York Times:He spies on the Hitler household by inserting a pantingly nosy narrator who poses as a Nazi Intelligence officer but claims to have been sent by the Devil.