trappingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

trapping +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

trappingly (not comparable)

  1. (rare) So as to trap someone or something.
    • 1906, Sir James Henry Yoxall, Beyond the Wall, page 11:
      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, […]
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