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trancily en · ADV

Etymology

From trance + -ily.

Meanings

1. Which causes or results from a trance (a dazed or unconscious condition).
   • On Christmas morning the three of them went to church, and Mrs Shannon, being deeply affected by the carols, go her annual religious mania, and walked trancily down the road afterwards, talking about the peaceful life of a nun. 1940, Monica Dickens, Mariana, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, published 1950, page 256:
   • The truth is that not all of Brötzmann's output is difficult listening. This 2022 live performance with the Gnawa master Majid Bekkas and the drummer Hamid Drake is even trancily soothing. 2023 July 5, David A. Graham, “How Musk and Biden Are Changing the Media”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 May 2024:
   • Louise gazed trancily down the hall, but then seemed to recognise something — the modern-art clock on the wall, maybe. 2010, Lucy Dillon, Walking Back to Happiness, London: Hodder, →ISBN, page 254:

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