unpressingly
unpressingly adverb: not pressingly.
Adverb
unpressingly (comparative more unpressingly, superlative most unpressingly)
- Not pressingly.
- Not high Olympus—nor your fructive earth, / E’er to such fairy-forms gave birth: / They vault with sylph-like ease and grace, / From dragons-backs, to th’ hippocampi race: / And are so light of frame, that when they roam, / They ride unpressingly the billows’ foam!1843, J[ohann] Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jonathan Birch, Faust: A Tragedy, […], 2nd part, London: Chapman and Hall, […]; Leipsic: F[riedrich] A[rnold] Brockhaus, act II, scene vii, page 164
- It has wit and pleasant malice, but they are not sudden and apart from it, like set jewels, but are inherent in it, and do their work swiftly, casually, and unpressingly.1928 November 10, Lionel Trilling, “Virginia Woolf’s Propaganda for Grace and Wit”, in New York Evening Post; quoted in Harvey Teres, “Lionel Trilling as Public Intellectual”, in The Word on the...
Examples of unpressingly in a sentence
- It possesses also a humble appeal of personality, a tone as unpressingly intimate as the touch of a hand on one’s arm.1974, Calvin Bedient, “Philip Larkin”, in Eight Contemporary Poets: Charles Tomlinson, Donald Davie, R. S. Thomas, Philip Larkin, Ted...
- “Do you wish to stay for the interment?” asked Helda, formally and unpressingly.1986 December, Lois McMaster Bujold, chapter 5, in Ethan of Athos (Vorkosigan Saga), New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, published April 1994...
Forms of unpressingly
| comparative | more unpressingly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unpressingly |
Origin of unpressingly
From un- + pressingly.
Questions about unpressingly
- What does unpressingly mean?
- Unpressingly means not pressingly.
- How do you use unpressingly in a sentence?
- It possesses also a humble appeal of personality, a tone as unpressingly intimate as the touch of a hand on one’s arm.
- What part of speech is unpressingly?
- Unpressingly is an adverb.
Words near unpressingly in the dictionary
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