takingly

adv

takingly

adv

Etymology From taking + -ly.

1

Dated attractively; fetchingly

  • They are most takingly illustrated, and each of them in itself illustrates, as all Chinese writing is intended to do, some admirable moral quality.1910, New-York Observer, volume 89, page 246:

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