droppingly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
droppingly (not comparable)
- In drops; one drop at a time.
- 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Vision of Poets”, in Poems. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
- The birds sang and brake off again
To shake their pretty feathers dry
Of the dew sliding droppingly
From the leaf-edges
- bit by bit; one at a time
- 1614, Daniel Dyke, The Mystery of Selfe-Deceiuing:
- our prayers come but droppingly from vs afterward in the ebbe of our affections
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
in drops
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References[edit]
- “droppingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.