Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By rising or ascending; so as to rise high.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an ascending manner.
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- adverb In a manner that
mounts oraccumulates ;increasingly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The crimson color came to Vesta's cheeks so unwillingly, so mountingly, that she felt ashamed of it, and, in place of anger, that many wives so exposed would have shown, she shed some quiet tears.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
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He was then totally at home as the bonhomous but mountingly indignant Mr Hardcastle in a revival of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer at the Young Vic in 1972.
The Guardian World News Michael Billington 2011
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"The third and purportedly final installment in the mountingly exciting series is a pounding, pulsating thriller that provides an almost constant adrenaline surge for nearly two hours." died six years ago, but that has done nothing to slow the release of books published under the name of the actor-turned-novelist who specialized in thrillers built on a foundation of paranoia, "writes
GreenCine Daily 2009
TankHughes commented on the word mountingly
What a jolly word to misinterpret. I'm not sure how I could ever take this word seriously if I met it in the wild.
May 15, 2015