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destroyingly en · ADV

Etymology

From destroying + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a way that destroys.
   • the voice of a storm that sweeps destroyingly over forest and mountain 1914, Jean Lang, A Book of Myths:
   • Tho' Ruin now Love's shadow be, / Following him, destroyingly, / On Death's white and winged steed, / Which the fleetest cannot flee, [...] 1818–1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 58:

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