risingly
risingly adverb: in a rising manner.
Adverb
risingly (comparative more risingly, superlative most risingly)
- In a rising manner.
- The play was written in a London of bubonic plague, cheap death, religious burnings, torture; a London given over to the deal: the buy/sell transactions of a risingly brutal capitalism dealing in information through spies and informers, flesh through rampantly exploitative prostitution, liberty and...1987, Brian Rotman, “King Lear and ‘nothing’”, in Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero (Language, Discourse, Society), Basingstoke, Hants.; London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, →ISBN, section 3...
- Painting was just one, though the most visible, witness to the perceptual change that spread through every form – reflecting not just a risingly confident avant garde, but the new views of consciousness and perception, the new apocalyptic awareness of modernity and universal change, that was...1987, Malcolm Bradbury, “‘A Dog Engulfed in Sand’: Character and Abstraction in Contemporary Writing and Painting”, in No, Not Bloomsbury, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, published 1988...
Forms of risingly
| comparative | more risingly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most risingly |
Origin of risingly
From rising + -ly.
Questions about risingly
- What does risingly mean?
- Risingly means in a rising manner.
- What part of speech is risingly?
- Risingly is an adverb.
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