Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a quaking or trembling manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a quaking manner; fearfully.

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  • adverb In a quaking fashion, especially with fear.

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Examples

  • I mean a true, earth quakingly, soul breakingly, appalling snorer!

    Walking El Camino de Santiago: The Complete Notes. 2008

  • Throw in an O'Jays 'For The Love Of Money' sample which could hardly exemplify the song's attitude more directly, and you have a speaker-quakingly fine record that will sound just as at home on daytime radio as in the underground clubs.

    Feeling Listless - "Taking the credit for your second symphony." 2004

  • In the sixteenth century a robber could argue; We need only meet the power of one household at a time: John Smith quakingly flourishing his blunderbuss.

    Sir Norman Angell - Nobel Lecture 1933

  • Mrs. Spencer had stood quakingly on guard until he had disappeared.

    Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

  • Abel Keeling, his mind now noting minute things and now clouded with torpor, did not at first hear a voice that was quakingly lifted up over by the forecastle -- a voice that drew nearer, to an accompaniment of swirling water.

    Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

  • "I am going to wear it to the induction tomorrow," Mary Isabel said, boldly to all appearances, quakingly in reality.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 1908

  • Mrs. Spencer had stood quakingly on guard until he had disappeared.

    Further Chronicles of Avonlea 1908

  • I let myself think ONCE, 'What if I should come out first?' quakingly, you know, for it seemed so vain and presumptuous to think I could lead the Island.

    Anne of Green Gables 1908

  • At first she had been quakingly afraid of discovery.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 1908

  • But I am going no further with the matter now; except to say that in something like an hour Mr. Amidon departed much perturbed by the prospect of the nearness of his happiness, fully convinced of his unworthiness, and quakingly uncertain as to many things, but most of all, just then, as to his clothes!

    Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893

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