spellingly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]spellingly (comparative more spellingly, superlative most spellingly)
- (rare) Spelling out words from letters.
- 1869, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lords ad Liveries:
- Jeames read the morning paper to the ladies; not spellingly and with hesitation, as many gentlemen do, but easily and elegantly, speaking off the longest words without a moment's difficulty.