Livingly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 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. 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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