woundingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

wounding +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

woundingly (comparative more woundingly, superlative most woundingly)

  1. In a way that wounds
    • 2009 January 25, Celia Mcgee, “Approaching Brecht, by Way of Africa”, in New York Times[1]:
      But when the playwright Lynn Nottage spoke the first two words of the title to Congolese women in the refugee camps of Uganda in 2004, she said, they repeated them in such a way that the words became woundingly new.