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quickeningly

quickeningly adverb: so as to quicken or bring to life; animatingly.

Adverb

quickeningly (comparative more quickeningly, superlative most quickeningly)

  1. So as to quicken or bring to life; animatingly.
  2. So as to speed up.
    • a pulse-quickeningly frightening film

Forms of quickeningly

comparativemore quickeningly
superlativemost quickeningly

Origin of quickeningly

From quickening + -ly.

Questions about quickeningly

What does quickeningly mean?
Quickeningly means so as to quicken or bring to life; animatingly.
What part of speech is quickeningly?
Quickeningly is an adverb.

Words near quickeningly in the dictionary

  1. quickeners
  2. quickenest
  3. quickeneth
  4. quickening
  5. quickening up
  6. quickeningly
  7. quickenings
  8. quickens
  9. quickens up
  10. quicker
  11. quicker on the draw

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