Meanings
comparative more intoningly · superlative most intoningly
- With marked intonation.
Even the Quakers, although they allow not music, yet preach intoningly, in a singsong way. Music is the natural outlet of devotion.
1887, George Dana Boardman, Divine Man from the Nativity to the Temptation
Origin
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