Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a speaking manner; so as to produce the effect of speech; very expressively.
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- adverb rare In an
expressive manner.
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Examples
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He, with a company of friends, visits the country of a tyrant, who is accustomed to welcome strangers and heap them with benefits, till a time comes (the allegory is something obvious) when he demands it all back, with their lives, through a cruel minister (again something "speakingly" named) "Thanate."
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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In an interview before the conference the Cardinal assured our reporter that he would be speakingly plainly about the recent repeal of the Church's long-standing regulation that all verses of a hymn must be sung for it to be considered a valid hymn and the new rule not only permitting but requiring again the use of only those hymns composed before the year 1962.
Important Notice for Liturgists, Music Directors, Piano and Tamborine Players, etc. 2006
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But the doings of their elders, unless where they are speakingly picturesque or recommend themselves by the quality of being easily imitable, they let them go over their heads (as we say) without the least regard.
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There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences.
Mansfield Park 2004
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There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers,the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences.
A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002
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There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers,the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences.
A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002
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And even if we can neither commend nor recommend heroes like _Tom Jones_, such young men really existed, and the likeness is speakingly drawn: we bear with his faults because of his reality.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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And if white skin was no more delicate in reality than dark skin, it answered to the lash much more speakingly.
Melbourne House 1907
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And as she let her hands slip down, and, turning, gently looked at him, he nodded to her speakingly, because out of the dimness of his being, some part of Nature's working had strangely answered and understood.
The Shuttle 1907
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Him, and thou art silently speaking, and speakingly silent, fastingly eating, and eatingly fasting, and so forth of all the remenant.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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