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approvingly

approvingly adverb: in an approving manner.

Adverb

approvingly (comparative more approvingly, superlative most approvingly)

  1. In an approving manner.
    • In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.2012, Barbara Newman, “Ailments of the Tongue”, in London Review of Books, volume 34, number 6

Forms of approvingly

comparativemore approvingly
superlativemost approvingly

Origin of approvingly

From approving + -ly.

Questions about approvingly

What does approvingly mean?
Approvingly means in an approving manner.
What part of speech is approvingly?
Approvingly is an adverb.

Words near approvingly in the dictionary

  1. approvers
  2. approves
  3. approvest
  4. approveth
  5. approving
  6. approvingly
  7. approvision
  8. approvisioned
  9. approvisioning
  10. approvisions
  11. approx

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