recedingly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]recedingly (comparative more recedingly, superlative most recedingly)
- While receding or moving away.
- 2007 July 16, Ginia Bellafante, “Campus Sex Scandal Today for Leaders of Tomorrow”, in New York Times[1]:
- Evan has fooled around with Rebecca, a senator’s daughter and, thus by virtue of her lineage, one of his girlfriend’s prized pledges at Zeta Beta Zeta, a sorority not for the inadequately shaven or recedingly ambitious.