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gleamingly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English gleaming Middle English -ly English -ly English gleamingly From gleaming + -ly.

Meanings

1. While gleaming, or so as to gleam.
   • "Gleamingly the Dead arise Viewing with their death-calmed eyes The elemental strategies" 1838, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Seraphim:
   • And Hunt's tender heart's ease looks gleamingly out, […] 1822, “Epistle to W. W.”, in The Scots Magazine, volumes 89-90, page 314:
   • His horror became a madness ; his eyes ran gleamingly along the shore, to detect the demon hand that had in the very moment of his bliss struck from his heart the living impulse of his soul. 1852, Pierce Egan, The London Apprentice, and the Goldsmith's Daughter of West Chepe: A Tale in the Time of Bluff King Hal, Book ⅠⅠⅠ, Chapter ⅩⅩⅠⅠⅠ published in London by W. S. Johnson, p. 212

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