restrainingly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
restraining + -ly
Adverb[edit]
restrainingly (comparative more restrainingly, superlative most restrainingly)
- So as to restrain or hold back.
- 1908, Harold Bindloss, For Jacinta:
- […] Brown laid his hand restrainingly upon the gallant skipper's arm.