Ruminatingly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 While ruminating; with thought or meditation.
""And it always seems to me," he went on ruminatingly, "that, after all we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go. I know it's shocking blasphemy to say so, but then it's different here, you see. We are further away.""
Example
More examples""And it always seems to me," he went on ruminatingly, "that, after all we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go. I know it's shocking blasphemy to say so, but then it's different here, you see. We are further away.""
Etymology
From ruminating + -ly.
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