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fuliginously

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Etymology

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From fuliginous +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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fuliginously (comparative more fuliginously, superlative most fuliginously)

  1. In a fuliginous manner.
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History [], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (Nanci), page 82:
      Military France is everywhere full of sour inflammatory humour, which exhales itself fuliginously, this way or that: a whole continent of smoking flax; which, blown on here or there by any angry wind, might so easily start into a blaze, into a continent of fire.