SOOTHINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soothingly mean? 

• SOOTHINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb SOOTHINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in a soothing manner

  Familiarity information: SOOTHINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOOTHINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a soothing manner

Context example:

the mother talked soothingly to her child

Pertainym:

soothing (freeing from fear and anxiety)

 Context examples 

He walked over to White Fang and began talking to him gently and soothingly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"You've got her," the other said soothingly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"That's nothing. I often shake you, and you don't mind," said Jo soothingly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She reached up a hand and passed the fingers soothingly through his hair.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“You must not fear,” said he soothingly, bending forward and patting her forearm.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But Maud was by my side, passing her hand soothingly through my hair as though I were a child, and saying, “There, there; it will all come right. We are in the right, and it must come right.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At the first howl the horses began to strain and rear, but the driver spoke to them soothingly, and they quieted down, but shivered and sweated as though after a runaway from sudden fright.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I took hold of his clenched hand, loosened the contorted fingers, and said to him, soothingly—Sit down; I'll talk to you as long as you like, and hear all you have to say, whether reasonable or unreasonable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Just listen to me a minute, and be a good child," said Meg soothingly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"You'll grow out of it, young man," he said soothingly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)