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compressingly

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Etymology

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From compressing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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compressingly (not comparable)

  1. So as to compress.
    • 1843, Charles Reece Pemberton, William Johnson Fox, Sir John Fowler, The Life and Literary Remains of Charles Reece Pemberton, page 192:
      The first touch of the strings thrilled through her every limb: she shook with a convulsive motion, and drew her arms and elbows close, compressingly, against her sides, and clapped her little hands in ecstacy, […]
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