droppingly

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English

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Etymology

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From dropping +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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droppingly (not comparable)

  1. In drops; one drop at a time.
    • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Vision of Poets”, in Poems. [], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, [], →OCLC:
      The birds sang and brake off again
      To shake their pretty feathers dry
      Of the dew sliding droppingly
      From the leaf-edges
  2. bit by bit; one at a time
    • 1614, Daniel Dyke, The Mystery of Selfe-Deceiuing:
      our prayers come but droppingly from vs afterward in the ebbe of our affections
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