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glowingly

glowingly adverb: while giving off a glow.

Adverb

glowingly (comparative more glowingly, superlative most glowingly)

  1. While giving off a glow.
    • The spark hung there glowingly, then suddenly went out.
    • I lay stretching out, glowingly alive all over, and tossing with burning impatience for the renewal of joys that had sinned but in a sweet excess1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC
  2. With enthusiastic praise.
    • He praised her glowingly; it was enough to make her blush.

Forms of glowingly

comparativemore glowingly
superlativemost glowingly

Origin of glowingly

From glowing + -ly.

Questions about glowingly

What does glowingly mean?
Glowingly means while giving off a glow.
What part of speech is glowingly?
Glowingly is an adverb.

Words near glowingly in the dictionary

  1. glowing
  2. glowing generalities
  3. glowing generality
  4. glowing hot
  5. glowing up
  6. glowingly
  7. glowingness
  8. glowings
  9. glowlamp
  10. glowlamps
  11. glowless

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