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adverbaspiringly (comparative more aspiringly, superlative most aspiringly)
comparative more aspiringly · superlative most aspiringly
- In an aspiring manner.
to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward
1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 24, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, pages 315-316
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