droppingly
English
Etymology
dropping + -ly
Adverb
droppingly (not comparable)
- In drops; one drop at a time.
- 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Vision of Poets”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 270767504:
- The birds sang and brake off again
To shake their pretty feathers dry
Of the dew sliding droppingly
From the leaf-edges
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- bit by bit; one at a time
- 1614, Daniel Dyke, The Mystery of Selfe-Deceiuing:
- our prayers come but droppingly from vs afterward in the ebbe of our affections
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Related terms
- jaw-droppingly
Translations
in drops
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References
- droppingly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913