pouncingly
English
Etymology
pouncing + -ly
Adverb
pouncingly (comparative more pouncingly, superlative most pouncingly)
- In a pouncing manner; with a pouncing motion.
- 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
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