blottingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

blotting +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

blottingly (not comparable)

  1. So as to produce blots.
    • 1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes, page 248:
      That Pen, which now writes blottingly, might be well made at first, and will write fairly again […]
  2. So as to blot out or conceal.
    • 2019, James Stephens, The Demi-Gods:
      She trod like a featureless shade; her shawl wrapped blottingly about her face and her mind moving within herself and for herself.
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