Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a reviving manner.

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  • adverb So as to revive.

Etymologies

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reviving +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • If you never give up, it's a strangely, sometimes revivingly, unpredictable world.

    Ed Reed's Stories of Regret and Recovery 2009

  • The air blew as freshly and revivingly upon me as it had ever blown, and the healthy colour came into my new face as it had come into my old one.

    Bleak House 2007

  • Her prayers breathed revivingly on the Lord's 'faded garden.'

    Sweet Singers of Wales 1889

  • It now appeared, none the less, that some renewed conversation with Mr. Crichton had breathed on the faintness revivingly, and

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • It now appeared, none the less, that some renewed conversation with Mr. Crichton had breathed on the faintness revivingly, and

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 Henry James 1879

  • It now appeared, none the less, that some renewed conversation with Mr. Crichton had breathed on the faintness revivingly, and

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 Henry James 1879

  • It now appeared, none the less, that some renewed conversation with Mr. Crichton had breathed on the faintness revivingly, and

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 Henry James 1879

  • It now appeared, none the less, that some renewed conversation with Mr. Crichton had breathed on the faintness revivingly, and

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • It now appeared, none the less, that some renewed conversation with Mr. Crichton had breathed on the faintness revivingly, and

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • He had partly raised the shawl, and a gush of free air came revivingly in, and enabled Leoline to gasp out a faint "I promise!"

    The Midnight Queen May Agnes Fleming 1860

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