recedingly

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adverb

While receding or moving away.

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Meanings

adverbrecedingly (comparative more recedingly, superlative most recedingly)

comparative more recedingly · superlative most recedingly

  1. While receding or moving away.

    Evan has fooled around with Rebecca, a senator’s daughter and, thus by virtue of her lineage, one of his girlfriend’s prized pledges at Zeta Beta Zeta, a sorority not for the inadequately shaven or recedingly ambitious.

    2007 July 16, Ginia Bellafante, “Campus Sex Scandal Today for Leaders of Tomorrow”, in New York Times

Origin

From receding + -ly.

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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