Risingly
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In a rising manner. rare
"The play was written in a London of bubonic plague, cheap death, religious burnings, torture; a London given over to the deal: the buy/sell transactions of a risingly brutal capitalism dealing in information through spies and informers, flesh through rampantly exploitative prostitution, liberty and freedom through indentures and slavery."
Example
More examples"The play was written in a London of bubonic plague, cheap death, religious burnings, torture; a London given over to the deal: the buy/sell transactions of a risingly brutal capitalism dealing in information through spies and informers, flesh through rampantly exploitative prostitution, liberty and freedom through indentures and slavery."
Etymology
From rising + -ly.
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