Definitions
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- adverb While
falling ; with a falling motion.
Etymologies
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falling + -ly
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Examples
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Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, “Oh God! Oh God! — the first division of it rising in inflection, the second division inflected fallingly with despair.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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-- the first division of it rising in inflection, the second division inflected fallingly with despair.
The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896
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