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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

compressingly en · ADV

Etymology

From compressing + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) So as to compress.
    • The first touch of the strings thrilled through her every limb: she shook with a convulsive motion, and drew her arms and elbows close, compressingly, against her sides, and clapped her little hands in ecstacy, […] 1843, Charles Reece Pemberton, William Johnson Fox, Sir John Fowler, The Life and Literary Remains of Charles Reece Pemberton, page 192: