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Meaning of awaitingly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2

Definitions

In an awaiting manner.

uncommon

Examples

““But you ’re in San Francisco now. Where are you stopping?” He took up a pencil and held it over a memorandum pad awaitingly.”
“[…] hoping to hear from you soon I am yours awaitingly ⸺ ⸺.”
“Quia, v. Sit down awaitingly (used in perf.), as men when some work is about to be done, a case to be tried, or when a person sits down at any spot awaiting the passage of somebody (ela form and ace.) expected; […]”
““Awaitingly, with the sweetest anxiety, / “Fannie ⸺.””
“[T]he only way in which the making-present itself can meet up with anything unsuitable, is by already operating in such a way as to retain awaitingly that which has an involvement in something. To say that making-present gets ‘held up’ is to say that in its unity with the awaiting which retains, it diverts itself into itself more and more, […]”
“We can only be in many of our bodily, emotional, thinking or artistic ways if we reflex round our being altered and thrown into them by independent others. Such lines of contact reach out only by awaitingly being out there within the space of others who might enliven them.”
“Ed was gripped by simultaneous panic and excitement, which he quelled by walking through the flat’s narrow hallway to his sitting-room/study next door, where his computer screen glowed awaitingly.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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