Definition of "gropingly"
gropingly
adverb
comparative more gropingly, superlative most gropingly
Quotations
[…] all other sects of Philosophers, have but like men in Cimmerian darkenesse, gropingly stumbled, now and then, upon the nature of the true God-head […]
1635, David Person, Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons, London: Thomas Alchorn, Book 4, Section 1, p. 230
With the impetus of his rush the man drove straight on, his face suddenly gaping disfigured, with his hands open before him gropingly, as though blinded, and landed with terrific violence on his forehead, just short of Jim’s bare toes.
1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 31, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, page 323