enlargingly

adv

enlargingly

adv

Etymology From enlarging + -ly.

1

So as to enlarge.

  • By some strange arts Isabel's wonderful story might have been, someway, and for some cause, forged for her, in her childhood, and craftily impressed upon her youthful mind; which so — like a slight mark in a young tree — had now enlargingly grown with her growth, till it had become this immense staring marvel.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:

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