sacrificingly

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adverb

In a sacrificing manner.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

adverbsacrificingly (comparative more sacrificingly, superlative most sacrificingly)

comparative more sacrificingly · superlative most sacrificingly

  1. In a sacrificing manner.

    I sacrificingly give the caller five minutes to babble, cursing and resenting every second.

    2000, Helen Gurley Brown, “Calling You at Work”, in I’m Wild Again: Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 253
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    During the tedious lawsuit of 1895 and 1896, which threatened to involve the means her husband had left for the maintenance of the university, she sacrificingly used her personal means to help over until the suit was gained.

    1897, “STANFORD, Mrs. Jane Lathrop”, in Frances E[lizabeth] Willard, Mary A[shton] Livermore, editors, American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with over 1,400 Portraits: […], revised edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Springfield, Oh.: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, →OCLC, page 676, column 2

    Hon. Lloyd C[arpenter] Griscom said, on being introduced, it was not his intention to make a formal speech, but to give expression to his appreciation of [Women’s Union] Mission work, and especially woman’s work, for the home life of the people for whom they so sacrificingly laboured.

    1904 December 3, “Dedication of the Doremus Hall”, in The Japan Weekly Mail: A Review of Japanese Commerce, Politics, Literature, and Art, volume XLII, number 23, Yokohama, →OCLC, page 620, column 2

    [George] O’Brien, a rich man’s son, losing all, comes west, locates on a ranch where the owner, his daughter (Dorothy Wilson) and the foreman (Paul Kelly) are being crowded out by Harry Woods’ villainy. O’Brien tames a horse, his objective, saves the ranch and gets the girl while Kelly, sacrificingly, rides off.

    1935 January 26, “G.” [pseudonym], “Motion Picture Daily’s Hollywood Preview: ‘When a Man’s a Man’”, in Martin Quigley, editor, Motion Picture Daily […], volume 37, number 22, New York, N.Y.: Motion Picture Daily, Inc., Quigley Publications, Inc., →ISSN, page 4, column 2

    Major Church authorities have no recognizable bodies to deal with, no fixed ministries. This limits the long-term impact of these lay ministers internal to the Church they sacrificingly serve.

    1989, Leonard Doohan, “[Ministering in Church Structures] Reflections”, in Grass Roots Pastors: A Handbook for Career Lay Ministers, San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 114

    That war could be launched into because men and women light-mindedly – often unselfishly, I give you, sacrificingly – believed that war was permissible, controllable, sometimes right; […]

    1989, Sybille Bedford, “Part IV: Anchorage: France”, in Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education: A Biographical Novel, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, chapter III, page 100

Origin

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