reddeningly

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adverb

While turning red.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adverbreddeningly (comparative more reddeningly, superlative most reddeningly)

comparative more reddeningly · superlative most reddeningly

  1. While turning red.

    The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west.

    1921, H. P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City
    2 more examples

    Desdemona, instead of thus asserting her opinion, would have reddeningly and timidly inquired that of another, with which, when she had heard it, perhaps venturing to believe she agreed[…]

    1838, The Metropolitan, volume 23, page 146

    A blister of pus formed over it after a few days and when that popped I soaked my foot in skin-reddeningly hot water until the wound opened far enough for the sliver to sink from it and be gone.

    2011, David Hancock, Jackalope Hunting, page 116

Origin

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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