droppingly en · ADV
Etymology
From dropping + -ly.
Meanings
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(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:
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(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:
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Translations (1)
es a cuentagotas (in drops)