complimentingly

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English

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Etymology

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From complimenting +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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complimentingly (comparative more complimentingly, superlative most complimentingly)

  1. In a complimentary manner; with compliments.
    • 1890, The Argonaut, volumes 1-2, page 55:
      The speaker spoke complimentingly of the dispensary and the hospital, and of other refuges for the physically broken, []