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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

twiningly en · ADV

Etymology

From twining + -ly.

Meanings

  1. So as to twine.
    • The cap she selected for the occasion was one which owed almost all its Barnabian grace to a very magnificent wreath of crimson roses, which ran twiningly and caressingly round the front of it, […] 1843, Frances Trollope, chapter XXXII, in The Barnabys in America, or Adventures of the Widow Wedded, Paris: Published by A[nthony] and W[illiam] Galignani and Co., […], →OCLC, page 249:

Forms

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most twiningly Degree=Sup lexicographic
more twiningly Degree=Cmp lexicographic