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standingly

standingly adverb: while standing.

Adverb

standingly (not comparable)

  1. While standing.
    • And Glavina, standingly, went on, “Ladies and gentlemen, fellow delegates, we need better publicity writers, ” he paused arrogantly.1969, Bogomil Dubrovnik, Seven Keys to Hell, page 161
    • A man who "fights and bites", "eats standingly" or "cannot control his hunger" would hardly merit comment. But when women do these things they trespass on domains and behaviour which are male.1987, Bernhard Helander, Gender and Gender Characteristics as a Folk Model in Southern Somali Social Classification and Symbolism, page 8
  2. Remaining in force or status; enduringly.
    • It seems that ( ii ) necessarily leads to the conclusion that a sentence is characterized as standingly true if it is true in all interpretations that do not falsify any sentence which is standingly true.1992, Jaroslav Peregrin, Words and Worlds, page 33
    • Yet even in the extreme situation of super anaesthesia my body could figure standingly, i.e., figure as the center of feeling. This standing way of figuring would then still be part of what makes my body "my" body.2007, J. J. Valberg, Dream, Death, and the Self, page 275

Origin of standingly

From standing + -ly.

Questions about standingly

What does standingly mean?
Standingly means while standing.
What part of speech is standingly?
Standingly is an adverb.

Words near standingly in the dictionary

  1. standing water
  2. standing wave
  3. standing waves
  4. standing with
  5. standing-room
  6. standingly
  7. standings
  8. standiometer
  9. standish
  10. standishes
  11. Standlake

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