drivingly

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17
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20
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9

Definition of drivingly

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. So as to drive or motivate.
    “Keep her eyes, for the time, from her husband’s as she might, she soon found herself much more drivingly conscious of the strain on his own wit.”
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adv

  1. So as to drive or motivate.
    “Keep her eyes, for the time, from her husband’s as she might, she soon found herself much more drivingly conscious of the strain on his own wit.”
  2. With forceful, inexorable motion.
    “One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]”
  3. So as to drive.

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Etymology

From driving + -ly.

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