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livingly

adv

Etymology

From living + -ly.

  1. derived from *libjaną✻ — “to live”
  2. inherited from *libjaną✻ — “living”
  3. inherited from *libbjan✻
  4. inherited from lifiġende
  5. inherited from livynge
  6. suffixed as livingly — “living + ly”

Definitions

  1. In actual living experience

    In actual living experience; really, vitally.

    • Only in the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out.

  2. Realistically

    Realistically; as if experienced in life or as if alive.

    • It was so strange, to have that gay Italian bay, with all its memories, […] and those great old heroes, with their awful deeds for good and evil, all brought so suddenly and livingly before me, […]
    • You should have heard him speak of what he loved; […] Here was a piece of experience solidly and livingly built up in words, here was a story created, teres atque rotundus.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA