Improvingly
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In a manner that tends to improve (especially, (dated), to educate or morally better a person).
"1856, Eliza Edmondston, Sketches and Tales of the Shetland Islands, Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox, Chapter 12 “The Fowler,” p. 140, […] so fascinating and exciting is this method of idling away time which might be much more profitably and improvingly employed, that many of the fishermen frequent the cliffs, and peril their lives in the forbidden pursuit."
Example
More examples"1856, Eliza Edmondston, Sketches and Tales of the Shetland Islands, Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox, Chapter 12 “The Fowler,” p. 140, […] so fascinating and exciting is this method of idling away time which might be much more profitably and improvingly employed, that many of the fishermen frequent the cliffs, and peril their lives in the forbidden pursuit."
Etymology
From improving + -ly.
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