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passingly, adv.|ˈpɑːsɪŋlɪ, -æ-|
[f. passing ppl. a. + -ly2.]
In a passing manner. a. For the time, temporarily (obs.); in passing, cursorily.
a1340Hampole Psalter xlviii. 1 Þat ȝe here not passandly, all þat wonnys þe warld. 1340Ayenb. 172 Þe zeneȝere ssel guo in-to his house..naȝt pasindeliche ase þe iogelour þat ne blefþ naȝt bleþeliche in his house. 1530Palsgr. 383 All these actes be but passyngly brought in. 1684in Wodrow Hist. Ch. Scot. (1722) II. iii. viii. 388 Not having been for several Years there, but passingly. 1836Fraser's Mag. XIV. 633 They are passingly noticed in the last stanza. 1891G. Meredith One of our Conq. II. xii. 289 Victor commented passingly on the soundness of them.
b. In a surpassing degree or manner, surpassingly; pre-eminently, exceedingly; = passing adv. (qualifying adj., adv., vb.). arch.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 315 Þei ben passyngliche holy. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 483 Oon preysed hym in metre passingliche in þis manere. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 2537 Passandly sho loued cuthbert. 1470–85Malory Arthur iii. iii, He was passyngly wel vysaged and passyngly wel made. 1587M. Grove Pelops & Hipp. (1878) 56 She loues their wisdome passinglie. 1638Ford Fancies iv. i, You, forsooth,..were contented, Passingly pleased. 1887Harper's Mag. June 37, I, who thought myself so strong, am passingly weak. |