advancingly

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English

Etymology

advancing +‎ -ly

Adverb

advancingly (comparative more advancingly, superlative most advancingly)

  1. In an advancing manner.
    Synonym: progressively
    • 1820, James Mudie, An Historical and Critical Account of a Grand Series of National Medals,, London: Henry Colburn, page 112:
      The graceful and animated figure with a Sword in one hand and a Victor’s Crown in the other, and mounted advancingly on the ramparts, explicitly shew the mode in which the place was taken by storm.
    • 1906, Frank Townend Barton, chapter 17, in Horses: Their Points and Management in Health and Disease, London: Everett, page 298:
      in [old horses] the disease is advancingly destructive
    • 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail, published 2005, page 66:
      I haven’t been privy to the month-by-month deterioration of marriages once robust; I haven’t sniffed the sickly sweet waft of gin off the breath of a formerly industrious realtor at advancingly earlier hours of the afternoon.