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adverbfadingly (comparative more fadingly, superlative most fadingly)
comparative more fadingly · superlative most fadingly
- In a fading manner; becoming lighter or paler.
No church for her, then; and, as if in answer to their spiteful request, goose-coloured clouds began to gather in the west. However, across one cloud the end of a rainbow trailed fadingly.
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 156
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