Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With resistance or opposition; so as to resist.
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- adverb So as to
resist ; withresistance ; withoutaccepting oryielding .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Reluctantly, almost resistingly, the visitor stumbled after him, casting backward amazed glances at the beautiful lady.
The Red Cross Girl 1917
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The whole nation was turning again toward soldiering, drifting slowly and resistingly, but helplessly, into the very things it had long denounced as Prussianism and conscription.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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"It is Jan Öster who shall begin," he repeated stubbornly and resistingly, as one who is used to having his own way.
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He resistingly succumbed before the inherent jovial charm.
The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909
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And then he said resistingly, "I will go to London."
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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Only, on the whole, and considering accounts from other places, Rome has distinguished itself for mildness this year; and I hope I shall keep from bad attacks, having not much strength in body, nerve, or spirit to bear up resistingly against them ....
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898
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'I wish we could see more of this Temple,' said Robert resistingly.
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It was fearlessly and resistingly across the path of his advance that Lady
The Outcry Henry James 1879
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Father's will; in which we are neither passively nor resistingly dragged under by a force that we cannot effectually resist, but in which we go down willingly into the dark valley where death 'makes our sacrifice complete.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Only, on the whole, and considering accounts from other places, Rome has distinguished itself for mildness this year; and I hope I shall keep from bad attacks, having not much strength in body, nerve, or spirit to bear up resistingly against them ....
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833
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