trappingly

adv

trappingly

adv

Etymology From trapping + -ly.

1

Rare So as to trap someone or something.

Walls waited for him cunningly within the square blotch of darkness which the dormer's casement framed; if he passed himself within the casement the frame would enlarge into walls about him, trappingly, […]1906, Sir James Henry Yoxall, Beyond the Wall, page 11:

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