livingly

Adverb

livingly (comparative more livingly, superlative most livingly)

1. In actual living experience; really, vitally.
   • Only in the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
   • If we believed—if the great mass of people known as the civilized world did actually and livingly believe—that there was really anything beyond or above the physical order of nature, our children's literature, wrongly so called, would not be what it is.1887, Julian Hawthorne, “Literature for Children”, in Confessions and Criticisms
2. Realistically; as if experienced in life or as if alive.
   • It was so strange, to have that gay Italian bay, with all its memories, […] and those great old heroes, with their awful deeds for good and evil, all brought so suddenly and livingly before me, […]1849 July, Charles Kingsley, “North Devon”, in Prose Idylls, New and Old, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1873, →OCLC, page 248
   • Take an extreme case. A group of people are photographed by Edison's new process—say Titiens, Trebelli, and Jenny Lind, with any two of the finest men singers the age has known—let them be photographed incessantly for half an hour while they perform a scene in "Lohengrin"; let all be done...c. 1889, Samuel Butler, “How To Make the Best of Life”, in Essays on Life, Art and Science