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English
Etymology
From smarting + -ly.
Adverb
smartingly (comparative more smartingly, superlative most smartingly)
- So as to smart; with a stinging pain.
1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even be conscious of all that he had lost.