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entanglingly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English entanglen English entangling Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English entanglingly From entangling + -ly.

Meanings

1. So as to entangle.
   • The rest of the road presented still steeper pitches, deeper bogs, and more entanglingly strewn rocks. 1884, Alfred Marshall Mayer, Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters:
   • We may put the Exposition it self to the same Test, and judge by that, whether the Anonymus had reason to upbraid the Author of this Exposition with those rambling and general Terms in which (says he) he entanglingly wraps up the most difficult matters. 1685, James Benigne Bossuet, An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholic Church in Matters of Controversie:

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