livingly
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 8
Definition of livingly
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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In actual living experience; really, vitally.
“Only in the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out.”
“If we believed—if the great mass of people known as the civilized world did actually and livingly believe—that there was really anything beyond or above the physical order of nature, our children's literature, wrongly so called, would not be what it is.”
“A man very rarely has an image of a person with whom he is livingly, vitally connected. He only has dream-images of the persons who, in some way, oppose his life-flow and his soul's freedom, and so become impressed upon his plasm as objects of resistance.”
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adv
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In actual living experience; really, vitally.
“Only in the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out.”
“If we believed—if the great mass of people known as the civilized world did actually and livingly believe—that there was really anything beyond or above the physical order of nature, our children's literature, wrongly so called, would not be what it is.”
“A man very rarely has an image of a person with whom he is livingly, vitally connected. He only has dream-images of the persons who, in some way, oppose his life-flow and his soul's freedom, and so become impressed upon his plasm as objects of resistance.”
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Realistically; as if experienced in life or as if alive.
“It was so strange, to have that gay Italian bay, with all its memories, […] and those great old heroes, with their awful deeds for good and evil, all brought so suddenly and livingly before me, […]”
“You should have heard him speak of what he loved; […] Here was a piece of experience solidly and livingly built up in words, here was a story created, teres atque rotundus.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From living + -ly.
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