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droppingly en · ADV

Etymology

From dropping + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In drops; one drop at a time.
    • The birds sang and brake off again To shake their pretty feathers dry Of the dew sliding droppingly From the leaf-edges 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Vision of Poets”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
  2. (not-comparable) bit by bit; one at a time
    • our prayers come but droppingly from vs afterward in the ebbe of our affections 1614, Daniel Dyke, The Mystery of Selfe-Deceiuing:

Relateds

jaw-droppingly

Translations (1)

es a cuentagotas (in drops)