decayingly

comparative more decayingly · superlative most decayingly

1. In a decaying manner.

   Ordinary bodies, living vulnerably and decayingly in time, are poised unstably between these two conditions: the atomised and the flattened.

   2011, Steven Connor, “Cards”, in Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things, London: Profile Books, →ISBN, page 49

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   Contrariwiſe, when the Spirit of God, with-draweth his beames from the circumference of Generation and Compoſition unto the center of ſimplicity, he leaveth to viſite the Spirit of the creature, and ſo it muſt fade, ad^([sic]) decayingly return unto the principle from whence it came; and from thence again, if the ſame ſpirit is pleaſed to ſhine forth, a new Generation beginneth, where the Corruption or Reſolution ended.

   1659, Robert Fludd, “The true Mystery of Generation and Corruption (also a touch of Re-generation or Resurrection) is, afer^([sic]) the doctrine of holy Scripture, herein Expressed”, in Mosaicall Philosophy: Grounded upon the Essentiall Truth or Eternal Sapience. […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], →OCLC, book 4, page 78

   And yet, though the happiness may be unenduring, what heart, though seared by time and worldly care, can fail to sympathise with those emotions of early life? In after years there are none such. They are the high noon of earthly joy. After them, life goes on decayingly and solemnly to its shadowy sunset.

   [1877], [Daniel Shepherd], “Elective Affinities”, in Saratoga. An Indian Tale of Frontier Life. A True Story of 1787., Philadelphia, Pa.: T[heophilus] B[easley] Peterson and Brothers; […], →OCLC, page 314