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predictingly

predictingly adverb: in a predicting manner.

Adverb

predictingly (comparative more predictingly, superlative most predictingly)

  1. In a predicting manner.
    • Apollo. [Predictingly.] Yet assuredly thou wilt relax, although thou art mighty stubborn: such a man will come to the house of Phérës, Eurýstheus having sent him after a chariot of horses from the wintry regions of Thrace, who in fact, after being-received-a-guest in this house of Admétus, shall by...1824, T. W. C. Edwards, Ευριπιδου Αλκηστις. The Alcestis of Euripides, Literally Translated into English Prose; from the Text of Monk: with the Ooriginal Greek, the Metres, the Order, and English...
    • I remained sitting in thought, there came from out the far wood of Vollraz something white; it was a rider upon a white horse; the animal looked like a spirit, his soft canter sounded to me predictingly;1838, The Diary of a Child, pages 249–250

Examples of predictingly in a sentence

  • We will add what we said predictingly on this very subject in our Number for June 1837, as it expresses our opinion still; only unhappily confirmed by recent experience.1845 February, “The Painted Window for the Calcutta Cathedral”, in The Christian Observer, number 86, London: […] J. Hatchard and Son, page...
  • The time came for the “traitors,” the “heady,” the “high-minded,” the “proud” of whom Paul predictingly spake to the evangelist at Ephesus.1850 April, D. Oliphant, “Popular Christianity—or The Christian Religion Counterfeited”, in The Witness of Truth, volume V, number 4...
  • Have you ever before been so predictingly on target?1982 December 26, Mike Royal, “Hey Tom!”, in Tampa Tribune and Times, sixteenth year, number 52, Tampa, Fla., page 13-D:
  • […]means for predictingly calculating a gazing position of said observer based on said moving velocity and said moving direction.1997 March 28, Satoru Mizouchi, Control device for display device, US Patent 5,717,413:

Forms of predictingly

comparativemore predictingly
superlativemost predictingly

Origin of predictingly

From predicting + -ly.

Questions about predictingly

What does predictingly mean?
Predictingly means in a predicting manner.
How do you use predictingly in a sentence?
We will add what we said predictingly on this very subject in our Number for June 1837, as it expresses our opinion still; only unhappily confirmed by recent experience.
What part of speech is predictingly?
Predictingly is an adverb.

Words near predictingly in the dictionary

  1. predicter
  2. predicters
  3. predictest
  4. predicteth
  5. predicting
  6. predictingly
  7. predictings
  8. prediction
  9. prediction market
  10. prediction markets
  11. predictional

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