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standingly en · ADV

Etymology

From standing + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) While standing.
    • A man who "fights and bites", "eats standingly" or "cannot control his hunger" would hardly merit comment. But when women do these things they trespass on domains and behaviour which are male. 1987, Bernhard Helander, Gender and Gender Characteristics as a Folk Model in Southern Somali Social Classification and Symbolism, page 8:
    • Standingly, the audience ovated. 2021 March 6, Sid Schwab, “Schwab: CPAC put death of the Republican Party on full display”, in The Daily Herald:
    • And Glavina, standingly, went on, “Ladies and gentlemen, fellow delegates, we need better publicity writers, ” he paused arrogantly. 1969, Bogomil Dubrovnik, Seven Keys to Hell, page 161:
  2. (not-comparable) Remaining in force or status; enduringly.
    • Yet even in the extreme situation of super anaesthesia my body could figure standingly, i.e., figure as the center of feeling. This standing way of figuring would then still be part of what makes my body "my" body. 2007, J. J. Valberg, Dream, Death, and the Self, page 275:
    • It seems that ( ii ) necessarily leads to the conclusion that a sentence is characterized as standingly true if it is true in all interpretations that do not falsify any sentence which is standingly true. 1992, Jaroslav Peregrin, Words and Worlds, page 33:
    • If we adopt such a principle, one substitution instance would be the following: S standingly thinks that p only if S is disposed to occurrently think that p. 2015, Uriah Kriegel, The Varieties of Consciousness, page 121: