fallingly
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]fallingly (comparative more fallingly, superlative most fallingly)
- While falling; with a falling motion.
- 1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House:
- Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" — the first division of it rising in inflection, the second division inflected fallingly with despair.
- 1927, Samuel Ornitz, A Yankee passional, page 111:
- […] he lurched forward fallingly to receive him.