startingly
By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
Adverb
- By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
- VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly. - c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […],...
Origin
From starting + -ly.