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beginningly

beginningly adverb: so as to begin; as a beginner.

Adverb

beginningly (comparative more beginningly, superlative most beginningly)

  1. So as to begin; as a beginner.
    • Now, too, it was that, as it sometimes seems to me, I first and last chattered in the two childish languages I spoke of a little time ago. There seemed people about me, some of whom talked one, and some the other; but I talked both; yet one not so readily as the other; and but beginningly as it...1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Forms of beginningly

comparativemore beginningly
superlativemost beginningly

Origin of beginningly

beginning + -ly

Questions about beginningly

What does beginningly mean?
Beginningly means so as to begin; as a beginner.
What part of speech is beginningly?
Beginningly is an adverb.

Words near beginningly in the dictionary

  1. beginning of day
  2. beginning of the end
  3. beginning with the chucky
  4. beginningless
  5. beginninglessness
  6. beginningly
  7. beginnings
  8. begins
  9. begins at the wrong end
  10. begins with the chucky
  11. begintermediate

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