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gropingly

gropingly adverb: in a groping manner; blindly.

Adverb

gropingly (comparative more gropingly, superlative most gropingly)

  1. In a groping manner; blindly.
    • […] all other sects of Philosophers, have but like men in Cimmerian darkenesse, gropingly stumbled, now and then, upon the nature of the true God-head […]1635, David Person, Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons, London: Thomas Alchorn, Book 4, Section 1, p. 230
    • I am gropingly making my way into harmony and may come to harmonise some of my airs.1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Letter to Robert Bridges dated 27 April, 1881 in Claude Colleer Abbott (editor), Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges, Oxford University Press, 1935, p. 125

Forms of gropingly

comparativemore gropingly
superlativemost gropingly

Origin of gropingly

From groping + -ly.

Questions about gropingly

What does gropingly mean?
Gropingly means in a groping manner; blindly.
What part of speech is gropingly?
Gropingly is an adverb.

Words near gropingly in the dictionary

  1. gropest
  2. gropeth
  3. gropey
  4. Gropian
  5. groping
  6. gropingly
  7. gropings
  8. Gropnița
  9. Gropp
  10. gropper
  11. groppers

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