superstitiously

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUPERSTI'TIOUSLY, adverb In a superstitious manner; with excessive regard to uncommanded rites or unessential opinions and forms in religion. 1. With too much care; with excessive exactness or scruple. 2. With extreme credulity in regard to the agency of superior beings in extraordinary events.
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