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English
Etymology
From warning + -ly.
Adverb
warningly (comparative more warningly, superlative most warningly)
- In a warning manner; in such a way as to warn.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 133, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 604:[…] Moby Dick moved on, still withholding from sight the full terrors of his submerged trunk, entirely hiding the wrenched hideousness of his jaw. But soon the fore part of him slowly rose from the water; for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch […] and warningly waving his bannered flukes in the air, the grand god revealed himself, sounded, and went out of sight.
1891, Henry Francis Keenan, chapter 13, in The Iron Game:The woman put her finger to her lips, warningly.
1961, Muriel Spark, chapter 1, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, London: Macmillan:The outsides of old Edinburgh churches frightened her, they were of such dark stone, like presences almost the colour of the Castle rock, and were built so warningly with their upraised fingers.