distinguishingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From distinguishing + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]distinguishingly (comparative more distinguishingly, superlative most distinguishingly)
- With distinction; with some mark of preference.
- January 13, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Joseph Addison
- the heads of that party have been distinguishingly favourable to me
- January 13, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Joseph Addison
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “distinguishingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)