stealingly
advEtymology From stealing + -ly.
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By stealing (moving stealthily); furtively or sneakily
- if they were divers motions, they did so stealingly slip one into another as the latter part was ever in hand before the eye could discern the former was ended.a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC: