gleamingly

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adverb

While gleaming, or so as to gleam.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adverbgleamingly (comparative more gleamingly, superlative most gleamingly)

comparative more gleamingly · superlative most gleamingly

  1. While gleaming, or so as to gleam.

    And Hunt's tender heart's ease looks gleamingly out, […]

    1822, “Epistle to W. W.”, in The Scots Magazine, volumes 89-90, page 314
    2 more examples

    "Gleamingly the Dead arise Viewing with their death-calmed eyes The elemental strategies"

    1838, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Seraphim

    His horror became a madness ; his eyes ran gleamingly along the shore, to detect the demon hand that had in the very moment of his bliss struck from his heart the living impulse of his soul.

    1852, Pierce Egan, The London Apprentice, and the Goldsmith's Daughter of West Chepe: A Tale in the Time of Bluff King Hal, Book ⅠⅠⅠ, Chapter ⅩⅩⅠⅠⅠ published in London by W. S. Johnson, p. 212

Origin

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Chicago

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