Decayingly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a decaying manner.

    "Contrariwiſe, when the Spirit of God, with-draweth his beames from the circumference of Generation and Compoſition unto the center of ſimplicity, he leaveth to viſite the Spirit of the creature, and ſo it muſt fade, ad^([sic]) decayingly return unto the principle from whence it came; and from thence again, if the ſame ſpirit is pleaſed to ſhine forth, a new Generation beginneth, where the Corruption or Reſolution ended."

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"Contrariwiſe, when the Spirit of God, with-draweth his beames from the circumference of Generation and Compoſition unto the center of ſimplicity, he leaveth to viſite the Spirit of the creature, and ſo it muſt fade, ad^([sic]) decayingly return unto the principle from whence it came; and from thence again, if the ſame ſpirit is pleaſed to ſhine forth, a new Generation beginneth, where the Corruption or Reſolution ended."

Etymology

From decaying + -ly.

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