impressingly

comparative more impressingly · superlative most impressingly

1. In an impressing manner.

   (Impressingly,) I am content with my lot, sir.

   1854 June 15, Asteroid [pseudonym], “Does the Moon Rotate? Dialogue between the Lady of the Moon and a Practical Astronomer”, in United States Magazine, volume I, number 2, page 45, column 1

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   So ſhall he always hit the right and touching ſenſibility of tone, and move his auditors, impreſſingly: […]

   a. 1751, Aaron Hill, “An Essay on the Art of Acting”, in The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] [F]or the Benefit of the Family, published 1753, page 367

   In impressing upon his audience, that it was not the amount of worldly contributions, but the sacrifice made by the individual from his means, which found favor in the eye of heaven; the preacher impressingly referred his hearers to the history of the poor widow who cast in her two mites into the treasury, and the sublime sacrifice of all that was dear to human nature, which the Patriarch Abraham offered to make.

   1822 October, The Calcutta Monthly Journal, volume XLII, number 336, page 523

   I then shook hands with him as impressingly as I could manage to, and advised him, as he wished to avoid an ignominious death, to make all possible speed to Boston, and then out of it, without stopping so much as to see whether I made an edifying death.

   1842, “The Schoolmaster Abroad, or Who Was the Victim?”, in Nathan Hale, Jr., editor, The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion, volume II, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Bradbury, Soden and Company. […], page 158, column 2

   Moses went to make known this encouragement to the people; but, and the observation is impressingly suggestive, “they hearkened not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.”

   1850, John Kitto, Daily Bible Illustrations: Being Original Readings for a Year, on Subjects from Sacred History, Biography, Geography, Antiquities, and Theology. […], volume [2] (Moses and the Judges. April—June.), Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Sons; London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., page 38

   His sentences were exceedingly short, and his style impressingly simple.

   1850, Robert Boyle C[rawford] Howell, “A Tribute to the Memory of Rev. James Whitsitt, of Tennessee”, in Enoch Hutchinson, editor, The Baptist Memorial, and Monthly Record, […], volume IX, New York, N.Y.: Z. P. Hatch, […], page 156