thrillingly

thrillingly

English

Etymology

thrilling +‎ -ly

Adverb

thrillingly (comparative more thrillingly, superlative most thrillingly)

1. In a thrilling manner.
   • 1799, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn, Philadelphia: H. Maxwell, Chapter 5, p. 51,

     She held up her hands, and gazing upon me, uttered various exclamations which I could not understand. I could only remark that her accents were thrillingly musical.

   • 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, Chapter 14,

     She spoke again, but in a less excited tone, although it was thrillingly earnest.

   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 9, p. 243,

     Actually, Billy’s outward listlessness was a screen. The listlessness concealed a mind which was fizzing and flashing thrillingly.

   • 2018 May 26, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)‎:

     They had started so thrillingly but all their early momentum was lost once Salah went off. It never properly came back and the players in red took a long time – too long, probably – to adjust to being without the man who had scored 44 times over a record-breaking season.