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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

trappingly en · ADV

Etymology

From trapping + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) So as to trap someone or something.
    • Walls waited for him cunningly within the square blotch of darkness which the dormer's casement framed; if he passed himself within the casement the frame would enlarge into walls about him, trappingly, […] 1906, Sir James Henry Yoxall, Beyond the Wall, page 11: