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ˈpromisingly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a promising manner; so as to cause expectation of good.
a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 49, I speak the less promisingly of what I am to say in the remaining part of this paper. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) V. xxvii. 272 Clarissa must be the name, if promisingly lovely. 1861W. Brinton in Peaks, Passes & Glac. Ser. ii. I. 428 The weather cleared, and left the summits of the surrounding mountains promisingly covered with snow.
So ˈpromisingness, promising quality.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. Transition (1848) 289 Notwithstanding the Serenity and Promisingness of the Morning. 1727in Bailey vol. II. |