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fightingly

adv

Etymology

From fighting + -ly.

  1. derived from *fehtaną✻ — “to comb, struggle, contend with”
  2. inherited from *fehtandz✻
  3. inherited from feohtende
  4. inherited from feghtyng
  5. suffixed as fightingly — “fighting + ly”

Definitions

  1. So as to fight, like a fight

    So as to fight, like a fight; ferociously

    • He was only a vague old man who had made a muddle of life, but firmly and fightingly he was sure of that.

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