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Etymology

From blooming + -ly.

Meanings

1. With or by flowers that are blooming.
   • Not to have it so is an error, but the error is an inoffensive one easily corrected, and the merit is that the dwelling's business path is greenly, bloomingly screened from its pleasure-ground by a lovely natural drapery which at the same time furnishes, as far as the path goes, the house's robes of modesty. 1910 January, George W. Cable, “The Midwinter Gardens of New Orleans”, in Scribner's Magazine, volume 47, number 1, page 61:
   • The fields dress'd so bloomingly gay ; The birds that delightfully sing -Delight not when Celia's away : 1735 April 26, “Song V.: Tweed Side”, in The Weekly amusement: or, The universal magazine, number 25, page 682:
   • Except for the icky cowl enveloping the bulb, which we washed off in the cold strem that bloomingly warm day . 2022, Deborah Joy Corey, Debra Spark, Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family, page 106:
   • But whether observed or not by the dust-loving eyes of vanity and fashion, nature goes silently and bloomingly on. 1795, Samuel Jackson, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, page 159:
2. While blossoming; in the process of blooming.
   • O, a maiden flower, Buring with blushes the sweet bride-bower, Beauty her dower! Breathing perfumingly; Shall I live. bloomingly, Said she, by day, or the bridal hour? 1910, George Meredith, The Works of George Meredith, page 130:
   • Beneath it the primrose looked. bloomingly fair; The hyacinth danced, in its mantle of green ; And over the rill waved the sweet meadow queen. 1874, Matthew Harman, Poetic Buds - Issue 684, page 78:
   • A rose-tree never appears so bloomingly lovely as when placed between two leafless thorns . 1808, Maria Edgeworth, The Match Girl, page 121:
   • But when I am grown old, and in the obstruction of death, will not all that now rustles so bloomingly and livingly about me appear gray and dull ? 1864, Jean Paul, The Campaner Thal, and Other Writings, page 353:
3. In the bloom of health; flourishingly.
   • She little thinks how fatal are those charms she bears bloomingly into womanhood . 1855, Francis Colburn Adams, Our World: Or, The Slaveholder's Daughter, page 396:
   • There were tall, strong-looking men, of a type never seen in England, not even in the country, hard-worked looking women, healthy, out prematurely lined and aged when compared with town-bred women who have time and opportunity to take care of their appearance, and strapping girls and children, the latter bare-footed, bloomingly, aggressively robust, and without exaggeration nearly half as big again as English children of their ages. 1904, C. A. B., “Mr. Seddon's Constituency”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 90, page 359:
   • Though Mrs. Belsize made herself so intensely agreeable, was what is called a "fine woman," (certainly not more than forty,) and became her age bloomingly; yet the young clergyman shrunk from her ordinary civilities , and positively winced at her more glaring attentions . 1854, Our Honeymoon: And Other Comicalities from "Punch.", page 209:
   • Eva, although perhaps, strictly speaking, not beautiful, was yet bloomingly lovely. 2019, Fredrika Bremer, The Home; Or, Life in Sweden:
4. Redly; in a rosy manner.
   • Little Jimmy was none the worse for the climate; the frost and snow delighted him, the boisterous easterly windows only brought the roses more bloomingly into his cheeks, and even the dreary wet days did not seem to have any injurious effect upon his robust and healthy spirits . 1899, Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron, A Man's Undoing, page 195:
   • An early writer on the poem remarked that his manuscript was "bloomingly erubricated with Latin quotations ." 1910, Publications - Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, page 140:
   • A certain nose has grown sharper, a certain chin more peaked, a certain pair of cheeks more bloomingly red than ever , and a certain pair of eyes keep more vigilant watch out of Miss Slimmen's window. 2023, Mrs. Mark Peabody, Miss Slimmens' Window, page 154:
   • Bunty sat bloomingly regal in the same old red-silk dress with a pearl collar and tiara, day after day, playing on the red-lacquered grand piano. 1953, Richard Llewellyn, A Flame for Doubting Thomas, page 61:
5. Coming into full development or openness.
   • Yet in that small room my heart always opened so warmly, nay glowingly and bloomingly, so that now I want to be with you again for good and not part with you until the sun shines sweetly and lures me into the pine forest 2017, Julian Horton, Schubert, page 33:
   • May He spare him to see throughout the land bloomingly flourish the good see he himself so sedulously sowed. 1852, J. G. MacWalter, The Irish Reformation Movement in Its Religious, Social, and Political Aspects:
   • To me, fresh from a desert where they beat you for carrying books, it seemed profoundly cultivated, bloomingly humanistic. 1994, Robert Patrick, Temple Slave, page 70:
6. Used as a mild intensifier
   • As she said this, Lady Lexley grew more bloomingly vicious; and, despite the opaque whiteness of Miss Harper's skin, a shade of green shot across her face. 1865, Annie Thomas, On Guard, page 72:
   • I hate her with a B because she's so bitterly bellicose, and so bloomingly blunt. 1882, Chums, Chums: A Tale of the Queen's Navy - Volume 1, page 249:
   • What is the name of one so bloomingly needing of a good man as you? 2010, Gordon Young, The Wind Will yet Sing, page 131:

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