beginningly

comparative more beginningly · superlative most beginningly

1. So as to begin; as a beginner.

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   Now, too, it was that, as it sometimes seems to me, I first and last chattered in the two childish languages I spoke of a little time ago. There seemed people about me, some of whom talked one, and some the other; but I talked both; yet one not so readily as the other; and but beginningly as it were; still this other was the one which was gradually displacing the former.

   1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities