drivingly

English

Etymology

driving +‎ -ly

Adverb

drivingly (comparative more drivingly, superlative most drivingly)

1. So as to drive or motivate.
   • 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl‎^[1], Part 4, Chapter 34:

     Keep her eyes, for the time, from her husband’s as she might, she soon found herself much more drivingly conscious of the strain on his own wit.

2. With forceful, inexorable motion.
   • 1870, The Shamrock, volume 8, page 18:

     One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]

3. (engineering) So as to drive.