compressingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From compressing + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]compressingly (not comparable)
- So as to compress.
- 1843, Charles Reece Pemberton, William Johnson Fox, Sir John Fowler, The Life and Literary Remains of Charles Reece Pemberton, page 192:
- The first touch of the strings thrilled through her every limb: she shook with a convulsive motion, and drew her arms and elbows close, compressingly, against her sides, and clapped her little hands in ecstacy, […]