wettingly

comparative more wettingly · superlative most wettingly

1. rareIn a wetting manner.

   The mizzling rain falls wettingly, / Few linger in the street; […]

   1846, Andrew MᶜEwen, “The Sorrow-stricken”, in Zayda, and Other Poems, Belfast: […] Lamont, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 127

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   Rain, dreary and wet, fell persistently and wettingly all day yesterday as on Saturday, and the east wind played a doleful accompaniment to its pattering on roofs and window panes, and to the eternal drip, drip, dripping.

   1898 February 21, “New York All Adrip: Churchgoers Buffeted by a High Wind and Drenched by a Dreary Downpour. […]”, in The New York Times, volume XLVII, number 15,012, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, page 5, column 3

   Alas, it rained and rained quietly and wettingly all Saturday and Sunday, and I was cooped up with Clive, Duncan and Barbara in a very stuffy room.

   1962 May 7, Frances Partridge, Hanging On: Diaries December 1960 – August 1963, London: Phoenix Giant, published 1998, →ISBN, page 108