Definition of "hesitatingly" []

• In a hesitating manner. (adverb)

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• "In the gloom of early evening Chris spoke my name hesitatingly."
• "He was a very respectable man who had amassed a decent fortune from the sale of iron bedsteads; yet how could I bring myself to think that this embarrassed-looking, ill-dressed, timid little creature could, with a word hesitatingly uttered, unite me in eternal bonds?"
• "She pronounced his name hesitatingly, half appealingly."