runningly

adv

runningly

adv

Etymology From Middle English runningly, renningli, equivalent to running + -ly.

1

In a running manner; so as to run.

  • Unless it is read runningly, the metrical movement will not be felt. For the meaning, it is enough to have the class simply get the main idea in each stanza. Then the poem may be memorized.1924, Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Everyday Classics, Third and Fourth Readers: Teachers' Manual:

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