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prolongingly

prolongingly adverb: so as to prolong or lengthen.

Adverb

prolongingly (comparative more prolongingly, superlative most prolongingly)

  1. So as to prolong or lengthen.
    • a voice that prolongingly moulded every word1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 128, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Forms of prolongingly

comparativemore prolongingly
superlativemost prolongingly

Origin of prolongingly

From prolonging + -ly.

Questions about prolongingly

What does prolongingly mean?
Prolongingly means so as to prolong or lengthen.
What part of speech is prolongingly?
Prolongingly is an adverb.

Words near prolongingly in the dictionary

  1. prolonges
  2. prolongest
  3. prolongeth
  4. prolongevity
  5. prolonging
  6. prolongingly
  7. prolongings
  8. prolongment
  9. prolongments
  10. prolongs
  11. prolongued

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