fallingly

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English

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Etymology

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From falling +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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fallingly (comparative more fallingly, superlative most fallingly)

  1. While falling; with a falling motion.
    • 1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House:
      Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" — the first division of it rising in inflection, the second division inflected fallingly with despair.
    • 1927, Samuel Ornitz, A Yankee passional, page 111:
      [] he lurched forward fallingly to receive him.