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enlargingly

enlargingly adverb: so as to enlarge.

Adverb

enlargingly (not comparable)

  1. So as to enlarge.
    • By some strange arts Isabel's wonderful story might have been, someway, and for some cause, forged for her, in her childhood, and craftily impressed upon her youthful mind; which so — like a slight mark in a young tree — had now enlargingly grown with her growth, till it had become this immense...1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

Origin of enlargingly

From enlarging + -ly.

Questions about enlargingly

What does enlargingly mean?
Enlargingly means so as to enlarge.
What part of speech is enlargingly?
Enlargingly is an adverb.

Words near enlargingly in the dictionary

  1. enlarges up
  2. enlargest
  3. enlargeth
  4. enlarging
  5. enlarging up
  6. enlargingly
  7. enlargings
  8. enlay
  9. enlaying
  10. enlays
  11. enleague

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