Meanings
comparative more workingly · superlative most workingly
- With work or labour.
God is replenishingly everywhere: but most contractedly, and workingly in the temple.
a. 1631, John Donne, Sermon No. 5 preached to the Nobility1 more example
So there are persons in the Christian life that are living faithfully, humbly, workingly, but to whom, now and then, there springs out, at some unexpected hour, at some hour of great health and clearness of vision, […]
1886, The Brooklyn Magazine, volume 4, page 47
Origin
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