释义 |
stirringly, adv.|ˈstɜːrɪŋlɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a stirring manner. 1. So as to stir to action or emotion; rousingly, excitingly, movingly.
1382Wyclif Ps. xciii. [xciv.] 4 Thei shul steringli seyn [1388 Thei schulen telle out; Vulg. effabuntur], and speke wickidnesse. 1866Reader 26 May 524 It is in the portrayal of the more stirringly emotional that his dramatic genius is most at home. 1900P. C. Simpson Fact of Christ vi. 185 We men to whom this life calls so stirringly and strongly. 2. With brisk movement, actively. rare—1.
1889Hardwicke's Sci.-Gossip XXV. 199, I..found them stirringly busy; and in the nest were some sixty or seventy pupæ, and six or seven female ants. |