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glowingly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English glowing Middle English -ly English -ly English glowingly From glowing + -ly.

Meanings

1. While giving off a glow.
   • The spark hung there glowingly, then suddenly went out.
   • I lay stretching out, glowingly alive all over, and tossing with burning impatience for the renewal of joys that had sinned but in a sweet excess 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
2. With enthusiastic praise.
   • He praised her glowingly; it was enough to make her blush.

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