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droppingly

droppingly adverb: in drops; one drop at a time.

Adverb

droppingly (not comparable)

  1. In drops; one drop at a time.
    • The birds sang and brake off again
      To shake their pretty feathers dry
      Of the dew sliding droppingly
      From the leaf-edges1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Vision of Poets”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
  2. bit by bit; one at a time
    • our prayers come but droppingly from vs afterward in the ebbe of our affections1614, Daniel Dyke, The Mystery of Selfe-Deceiuing

Origin of droppingly

From dropping + -ly.

Questions about droppingly

What does droppingly mean?
Droppingly means in drops; one drop at a time.
What part of speech is droppingly?
Droppingly is an adverb.

Words near droppingly in the dictionary

  1. dropping the subject
  2. dropping the topic
  3. dropping the writ
  4. dropping trou
  5. dropping trow
  6. droppingly
  7. droppings
  8. droppings in
  9. dropple
  10. dropples
  11. droprenilamine

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