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droopingly en · ADV

Etymology

From drooping + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a drooping manner.
   • When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see No cliff beyond him in the sky, His pinions were bent droopingly — And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye. 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
   • The wilted flowers emerged droopingly from their vase.

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