"pettingly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "petting + -ly",
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    {
      "form": "more pettingly",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most pettingly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1906, Rudyard Kipling, “Red Dog”, in The Second Jungle Book, New York: The Century Co., page 247",
          "text": "\"It is to the death,\" said Akela. \"Thou hast never met the dhole—the Red Killer. Even the Striped One—\"¶ \"Aowa! Aowa!\" said Mowgli pettingly. \"I have killed one striped ape, and sure am I in my stomach that Shere Khan would have left his own mate for meat to the dhole if he had winded a pack across three ranges[…]\"",
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      "glosses": [
        "So as to pet or cajole."
      ],
      "id": "en-pettingly-en-adv-DX-4J3H2",
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        [
          "pet",
          "pet"
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        [
          "cajole",
          "cajole"
        ]
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  "word": "pettingly"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "petting + -ly",
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    {
      "form": "more pettingly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pettingly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1906, Rudyard Kipling, “Red Dog”, in The Second Jungle Book, New York: The Century Co., page 247",
          "text": "\"It is to the death,\" said Akela. \"Thou hast never met the dhole—the Red Killer. Even the Striped One—\"¶ \"Aowa! Aowa!\" said Mowgli pettingly. \"I have killed one striped ape, and sure am I in my stomach that Shere Khan would have left his own mate for meat to the dhole if he had winded a pack across three ranges[…]\"",
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        "So as to pet or cajole."
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          "cajole",
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  "word": "pettingly"
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