fallingly

fallingly

English

Etymology

falling +‎ -ly

Adverb

fallingly (comparative more fallingly, superlative most fallingly)

1. While falling; with a falling motion.
   • 1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House

     Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" — the first division of it rising in inflection, the second division inflected fallingly with despair.

   • 1927, Samuel Ornitz, A Yankee passional, page 111:

     […] he lurched forward fallingly to receive him.