"askingly" meaning in English

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          "text": "How askingly It’s footsteps t’ward me bend?\nIt seems to say, “And have I then one Friend?”",
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          "ref": "1890, William Dean Howells, The Shadow of a Dream, New York: Harper, Part 2, Chapter 2, p. 87:",
          "text": "“I don’t know whether this is something your wife ever knew about or not?” he began askingly.",
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          "ref": "1916, Arthur Adolphus Lindsay, Scientific Man Building Through Thought Force, Detroit: A. A. Lindsay Publishing Company, page 12:",
          "text": "Aspiration is looking askingly; to reach a desirable result one must look askingly toward that which can fulfill.",
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          "ref": "1983, Joyce Johnson, chapter 9, in Minor Characters, New York: Pocket Books, published 1984, page 150:",
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