Definition of "gropingly" in English

adverb

1. In a groping manner; blindly.

   • 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Letter to Robert Bridges dated 27 April, 1881 in Claude Colleer Abbott (editor), Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges, Oxford University Press, 1935, p. 125, I am gropingly making my way into harmony and may come to harmonise some of my airs.