Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a spreading or extending manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Increasingly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a manner that
spreads out .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As it shall make them return and revive, so it shall make them grow; they shall grow as the vine, that is, speedily, fruitfully, and spreadingly.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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Her brave Vaudoise predecessor had been bequeathed by us in London to a higher sphere than service with mere earnest nomads could represent; but had left us clinging and weeping and was for a long time afterwards to write to us, faithfully, in the most beautiful copper-plate hand, out of the midst of her "rise"; with details that brought home to us as we had never known it brought the material and institutional difference between the nomadic and the solidly, the spreadingly seated.
A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879
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