Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- So as to answer; correspondingly.
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Examples
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I will try only to bring before you a few simple thoughts about reading, which press themselves upon me every day more deeply, as I watch the course of the public mind with respect to our daily enlarging means of education; and the answeringly wider spreading on the levels, of the irrigation of literature.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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I will try only to bring before you a few simple thoughts about reading, which press themselves upon me every day more deeply, as I watch the course of the public mind with respect to our daily enlarging means of education; and the answeringly wider spreading on the levels, of the irrigation of literature.
Sesame and Lilies. Lecture I.-Sesame: Of Kings Treasuries 1909
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"I didn't think you'd dodge," he drawled, and the blood surged answeringly to Ford's cheeks.
The Uphill Climb B. M. Bower 1905
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Sansovino says that it was "built near the Ponte della Paglia, and answeringly on the Grand Canal," towards San Giorgio; that is to say, in the place now occupied by the Sea Façade; but this was merely the popular report of his day.
Stones of Venice [introductions] John Ruskin 1859
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There was a slight tremor in his voice, that thrilled, answeringly, a chord in the heart of his questioner.
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…the pyramid indicates the female corresponding tumefactive or rising power—not submissive, but answeringly suggestive, synchronized in the anatomical clitoris…that eccentric minute object, meaning everything in the Rosicrucian anatomy.85
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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…the pyramid indicates the female corresponding tumefactive or rising power—not submissive, but answeringly suggestive, synchronized in the anatomical clitoris…that eccentric minute object, meaning everything in the Rosicrucian anatomy.85
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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