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Tearingly vs Fearingly - What's the difference?

tearingly | fearingly |

As adverbs the difference between tearingly and fearingly

is that tearingly is with a tearing or ripping motion while fearingly is with fear; fearfully.

tearingly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • With a tearing or ripping motion.
  • * 1933 , John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
    • The beast sat on its haunches and tearingly ate the hind quarters of a still-squealing little pig.
  • * 2005 , Pippa de Bruyn, Frommer's South Africa (page 376)
    • The Zimbabwean telephone exchange is temperamental (make that hair-tearingly frustrating)...

    fearingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With fear; fearfully.
  • * 1840 , The Gospel magazine, and theological review (series 5, volume 3, page 413)
    • he fearingly and cautiously struggles to set his feet in the right way.