aspiringly

English

Etymology

From aspiring +‎ -ly.

Adverb

aspiringly (comparative more aspiringly, superlative most aspiringly)

1. In an aspiring manner.
   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 24, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, pages 315-316:

     to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward

Anagrams

• praisingly