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tremblingly

tremblingly adverb: in a trembling manner.

Adverb

tremblingly (comparative more tremblingly, superlative most tremblingly)

  1. In a trembling manner.
    • [T]he sailors tremblingly / Call on the Twins of Jove with prayer and vow, / Gathered in fear upon the lofty prow, / And sacrifice with snow-white lambs, […]1818 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To Castor and Pollux”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], new edition, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1840...
    • Andrew, he said, was coming soon. Tremblingly she wondered when, and went to reread Palmer's letter, but though she had hidden it with her father's unread will, both were gone.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 279

Forms of tremblingly

comparativemore tremblingly
superlativemost tremblingly

Origin of tremblingly

From trembling (present participle of tremble) + -ly.

Words formed from tremblingly

Questions about tremblingly

What does tremblingly mean?
Tremblingly means in a trembling manner.
What part of speech is tremblingly?
Tremblingly is an adverb.

Words near tremblingly in the dictionary

  1. trembling
  2. trembling and obeying
  3. Trembling Giant
  4. trembling poplar
  5. trembling poplars
  6. tremblingly
  7. tremblingness
  8. tremblings
  9. tremblor
  10. tremblors
  11. trembly

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