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bodingly

bodingly adverb: in a boding manner.

Adverb

bodingly (comparative more bodingly, superlative most bodingly)

  1. In a boding manner.
    • Along the wild mountains night-ravens were yelling— / They bodingly presaged destruction and woe.1808 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Victoria”, in William Michael Rossetti, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: […], revised edition, volume II, London: E[dward] Moxon, Son, &...

Forms of bodingly

comparativemore bodingly
superlativemost bodingly

Origin of bodingly

From boding + -ly.

Questions about bodingly

What does bodingly mean?
Bodingly means in a boding manner.
What part of speech is bodingly?
Bodingly is an adverb.

Words near bodingly in the dictionary

  1. Bodilys
  2. Bodin
  3. Bodine
  4. Bodines
  5. boding
  6. bodingly
  7. bodings
  8. Bodins
  9. Bodio
  10. Bodis
  11. Bodish

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