Livingly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In actual living experience; really, vitally.
"Only in the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out."
- 2 Realistically; as if experienced in life or as if alive.
"It was so strange, to have that gay Italian bay, with all its memories, […] and those great old heroes, with their awful deeds for good and evil, all brought so suddenly and livingly before me, […]"
Example
More examples"Only in the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out."
Etymology
From living + -ly.
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