prolongingly

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adverb

So as to prolong or lengthen.

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Meanings

adverbprolongingly (comparative more prolongingly, superlative most prolongingly)

comparative more prolongingly · superlative most prolongingly

  1. So as to prolong or lengthen.

    a voice that prolongingly moulded every word

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 128, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Origin

From prolonging + -ly.

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prolongingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prolongingly

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“prolongingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prolongingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prolongingly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prolongingly.

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