Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • By conquering.

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  • adverb So as to conquer.

Etymologies

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conquering +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Across the cleric's ascetic features a happy smile slowly and conqueringly spread.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30 Various

  • Her trade and her preparedness went conqueringly hand in hand.

    The War After the War Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918

  • If only he could adroitly, with his hand remaining unseen, place Maggie in a situation where circumstances would appeal conqueringly to her best self, to her latent sense of honor -- that was the idea!

    Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902

  • The second painting was of Maggie; the one on which Hunt had been working the day Larry had come back: Maggie in her plain working clothes, looking out at the world confidently, conqueringly; the painting in which Hunt, his brain teeming with ideas, had tried to express the Maggie that was, the many Maggies that were in her, and the Maggie that was yet to be.

    Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902

  • There is no possibility of explaining the system of life in this world, on any principle of _conqueringly_ Divine benevolence.

    Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

  • Their songs have shaggy, heavily syncopated beats that remind me of the Happy Mondays, an approach to distortion effects that's almost as liberal as My Bloody Valentine's, and hooky vocal melodies that rival Damon Albarn at his best-most notably on the brain-conqueringly catchy "Dominos."

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Their songs have shaggy, heavily syncopated beats that remind me of the Happy Mondays, an approach to distortion effects that's almost as liberal as My Bloody Valentine's, and hooky vocal melodies that rival Damon Albarn at his best-most notably on the brain-conqueringly catchy "Dominos."

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Their songs have shaggy, heavily syncopated beats that remind me of the Happy Mondays, an approach to distortion effects that's almost as liberal as My Bloody Valentine's, and hooky vocal melodies that rival Damon Albarn at his best-most notably on the brain-conqueringly catchy "Dominos."

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Their songs have shaggy, heavily syncopated beats that remind me of the Happy Mondays, an approach to distortion effects that's almost as liberal as My Bloody Valentine's, and hooky vocal melodies that rival Damon Albarn at his best-most notably on the brain-conqueringly catchy "Dominos."

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Their songs have shaggy, heavily syncopated beats that remind me of the Happy Mondays, an approach to distortion effects that's almost as liberal as My Bloody Valentine's, and hooky vocal melodies that rival Damon Albarn at his best-most notably on the brain-conqueringly catchy "Dominos."

    Chicago Reader 2010

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