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escapingly

escapingly adverb: by way of escape; so as to get away.

Adverb

escapingly (not comparable)

  1. By way of escape; so as to get away.
    • Then all present guzzled escapingly, putting behind them the relationship of their host and hostess.1978, Brian Victor Bell, Paper Tiger: Prose Fictions by Five Writers, page 117

Origin of escapingly

From escaping + -ly.

Questions about escapingly

What does escapingly mean?
Escapingly means by way of escape; so as to get away.
What part of speech is escapingly?
Escapingly is an adverb.

Words near escapingly in the dictionary

  1. escapest
  2. escapeth
  3. escapeway
  4. escapeways
  5. escaping
  6. escapingly
  7. escapings
  8. escapism
  9. escapisms
  10. escapist
  11. escapistic

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