prolongingly

English

Etymology

prolonging +‎ -ly

Adverb

prolongingly (comparative more prolongingly, superlative most prolongingly)

1. So as to prolong or lengthen.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 128, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     a voice that prolongingly moulded every word