destroyingly

adv

destroyingly

adv

Etymology From destroying + -ly.

1

In a way that destroys.

  • Tho' Ruin now Love's shadow be, / Following him, destroyingly, / On Death's white and winged steed, / Which the fleetest cannot flee, [...]1818–1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 58:
  • the voice of a storm that sweeps destroyingly over forest and mountain1914, Jean Lang, A Book of Myths:

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