destroyingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From destroying + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]destroyingly (comparative more destroyingly, superlative most destroyingly)
- In a way that destroys.
- 1818–1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 58:
- Tho' Ruin now Love's shadow be, / Following him, destroyingly, / On Death's white and winged steed, / Which the fleetest cannot flee, [...]
- 1914, Jean Lang, A Book of Myths:
- the voice of a storm that sweeps destroyingly over forest and mountain
Usage notes
[edit]Often used in combination, for example, soul-destroyingly.