runningly

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English

Etymology

From Middle English runningly, renningli, equivalent to running +‎ -ly.

Adverb

runningly (comparative more runningly, superlative most runningly)

  1. In a running manner; so as to run.
    • 1924, Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Everyday Classics, Third and Fourth Readers: Teachers' Manual:
      Unless it is read runningly, the metrical movement will not be felt. For the meaning, it is enough to have the class simply get the main idea in each stanza. Then the poem may be memorized.

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