Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a romping manner; rompishly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a romping manner.
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- adverb In a
romping manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The audience get to spy on the activities of the guests and staff – some of them lonely, some of them deviant, some of them rompingly exhibitionist.
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On Tuesday I was uncommonly well all the morning, and ate an excellent dinner; but playing too long and, too rompingly with Hartley and Derwent, I was very unwell that evening.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847
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As it rompingly lampoons the ignorance and repression of female sexuality in Victorian society, this continually surprising play also ponders the blessings and curses of new motherhood, the dawning of the age of electricity and the frictions between love, art and science.
The Seattle Times 2011
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On Tuesday I was uncommonly well all the morning, and ate an excellent dinner; but playing too long and, too rompingly with Hartley and Derwent, I was very unwell that evening.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811
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Tuesday I was uncommonly well all the morning, and ate an excellent dinner; but playing too long and too rompingly with Hartley and Derwent,
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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The audience get to spy on the activities of the guests and staff - some of them lonely, some of them deviant, some of them rompingly exhibitionist.
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