enlargingly

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English

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Etymology

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From enlarging +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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enlargingly (not comparable)

  1. So as to enlarge.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
      By some strange arts Isabel's wonderful story might have been, someway, and for some cause, forged for her, in her childhood, and craftily impressed upon her youthful mind; which so — like a slight mark in a young tree — had now enlargingly grown with her growth, till it had become this immense staring marvel.