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workingly

workingly adverb: with work or labour.

Adverb

workingly (comparative more workingly, superlative most workingly)

  1. With work or labour.
    • God is replenishingly everywhere: but most contractedly, and workingly in the temple.a. 1631, John Donne, Sermon No. 5 preached to the Nobility
    • So there are persons in the Christian life that are living faithfully, humbly, workingly, but to whom, now and then, there springs out, at some unexpected hour, at some hour of great health and clearness of vision, […]1886, The Brooklyn Magazine, volume 4, page 47

Forms of workingly

comparativemore workingly
superlativemost workingly

Origin of workingly

From working + -ly.

Questions about workingly

What does workingly mean?
Workingly means with work or labour.
What part of speech is workingly?
Workingly is an adverb.

Words near workingly in the dictionary

  1. working-classized
  2. working-classizes
  3. working-classizing
  4. working-storage section
  5. working-storage sections
  6. workingly
  7. workingman
  8. workingman's hotel
  9. workingman's hotels
  10. workingmen
  11. workingmen's hotel

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