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aspiringly

aspiringly adverb: in an aspiring manner.

Adverb

aspiringly (comparative more aspiringly, superlative most aspiringly)

  1. In an aspiring manner.
    • to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 24, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, pages 315-316

Forms of aspiringly

comparativemore aspiringly
superlativemost aspiringly

Origin of aspiringly

From aspiring + -ly.

Questions about aspiringly

What does aspiringly mean?
Aspiringly means in an aspiring manner.
What part of speech is aspiringly?
Aspiringly is an adverb.

Words near aspiringly in the dictionary

  1. aspirin
  2. aspirinate
  3. aspirinates
  4. aspirined
  5. aspiring
  6. aspiringly
  7. aspiringness
  8. aspirings
  9. aspirinlike
  10. aspirins
  11. aspiritual

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