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swellingly, adv.|ˈswɛlɪŋlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a swelling manner; with swelling form or outline; also, with swelling sound; fig. grandiloquently, † bombastically.
a1652Brome City Wit iv. i, As for Corantoes, &c.—I speak it not swellingly, but I subscribe to no man. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. Loire 180 Meadows and cultivated fields sweep swellingly away from the water's edge. 1839Fraser's Mag. XIX. 215 No longer Pyrrhias, Dromio, Tibias, But Megabyzus, Megacles, Protarchus Swellingly styled. 1879Meredith Egoist vii, He was of a sensitiveness terribly tender. A single stroke on it reverberated swellingly within the man. 1894Cornh. Mag. Jan. 91 As burly a billow of cloud as ever sailed swellingly over the broad Atlantic. |