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darkeningly en · ADV

Etymology

From darkening + -ly.

Meanings

1. So as to darken.
   • In addition, he wore […] a soft black hat that hung darkeningly over his eyes. 1919, Theodore Dreiser, Twelve Men:
   • Up from the floor, from the depths of the corners, […] along the tin-pipe reaching into the ceiling, crept the summer darkness. Only at a blotch of sunlight did it hesitate, tentative as a leaf-flicker on the whitewashed plaster, then moment by long moment it seeped in darkeningly. 1962, Rudy Wiebe, Peace Shall Destroy Many:

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