单词 | swellingly |
释义 | swellinglyadv. In a swelling manner; with swelling form or outline; also, with swelling sound; figurative grandiloquently, †bombastically. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adverb] > bombastically swellinglya1652 turgidly1668 mouthingly1671 mouthishly1797 bombastically1803 tumidly1822 sophomorically1889 bombastly- the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [adverb] protuberantly1668 swellingly1833 bulgily1891 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adverb] > increase of loudness upc897 swellingly1879 the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adverb] > in swelling manner swellingly1894 tumescently1983 a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. i. sig. D8, in Five New Playes (1653) As for..Corantoes, [&c.]..I speak it not swellingly, but I subscribe to no man. 1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 180 Meadows and cultivated fields sweep swellingly away from the water's edge. 1839 Fraser's Mag. 19 215 No longer Pyrrhias, Dromio, Tibias, But Megabyzus, Megacles, Protarchus Swellingly styled. 1879 G. Meredith Egoist vii He was of a sensitiveness terribly tender. A single stroke on it reverberated swellingly within the man. 1894 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 91 As burly a billow of cloud as ever sailed swellingly over the broad Atlantic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adv.a1652 |
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