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risingly

risingly adverb: in a rising manner.

Adverb

risingly (comparative more risingly, superlative most risingly)

  1. (rare) 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

comparativemore risingly
superlativemost 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.

Words near risingly in the dictionary

  1. rising with the sun
  2. Risinger
  3. Risingers
  4. Risinghurst
  5. Risinghurst and Sandhills
  6. risingly
  7. risings
  8. risings of the moon
  9. Risis
  10. risk
  11. risk appetite

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