droppingly

English

Etymology

dropping +‎ -ly

Adverb

droppingly (not comparable)

1. In drops; one drop at a time.
   • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Vision of Poets”, in Poems. […], volumes (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

Related terms

• jaw-droppingly

Translations

in drops

• Spanish: a cuentagotas

References

• “droppingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.