Definitions

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  • adverb So as to sustain or offer sustenance.

Etymologies

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sustaining +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • That sun-bright vision of himself which so splendidly and sustainingly companioned him, which spoke in his most sonorous periods, which so completely and satisfyingly commanded the reverence of Genevieve -- that

    The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors Mary Heaton Vorse 1920

  • Winch replied -- which made it right again; especially as our friend still felt himself reassuringly and sustainingly grasped.

    The Finer Grain Henry James 1879

  • But she was pale; her black brows were the blacker behind the flattering tissue; she still kept a hand, for support, on the terrace-rail, while the other, at the end of an extended arm that had an effect of rigidity, clearly pressed hard on the knob of a small and shining umbrella, the lower extremity of whose stick was equally, was sustainingly, firm on the walk.

    The Finer Grain Henry James 1879

  • "It is my province to stand, sustainingly, by your side; not to hang upon you, a dead weight."

    The Two Wives 1847

  • It was determined that drip or stream directed onto a hot surface will not igniteIn short, the fluid is only self-sustainingly flammable when allowed to both pool and heat.

    Aero-News Network 2010

  • Second, we are in an unprecedented crisis because cosmic evolution is also irrevocably intent upon making omni-integrated humanity omnisuccessful, able to live sustainingly at an unprecedentedly higher standard of living for all Earthians than has ever been experienced by any; able to live entirely within its cosmic-energy income instead of spending its cosmic energy savings account (i.e., the fossil fuels) or spending its cosmic-capital plant and equipment account (i.e., atomic energy)—the atoms with which our Spaceship Earth and its biosphere are structured and equipped—a spending folly no less illogical than burning your house-and-home to keep the family warm on an unprecedentedly cold midwinter night.

    E.M. Bucke, Buckminster Fuller Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Second, we are in an unprecedented crisis because cosmic evolution is also irrevocably intent upon making omni-integrated humanity omnisuccessful, able to live sustainingly at an unprecedentedly higher standard of living for all Earthians than has ever been experienced by any; able to live entirely within its cosmic-energy income instead of spending its cosmic energy savings account (i.e., the fossil fuels) or spending its cosmic-capital plant and equipment account (i.e., atomic energy)—the atoms with which our Spaceship Earth and its biosphere are structured and equipped—a spending folly no less illogical than burning your house-and-home to keep the family warm on an unprecedentedly cold midwinter night.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • -- to walk sustainingly by the side of her husband.

    The Lights and Shadows of Real Life 1847

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