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Webster 1913 Edition


Recoilingly

Re-coil′ing-ly

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adv.
In the manner of a recoil.

Webster 1828 Edition


Recoilingly

RECOIL'INGLY

,
adv.
With starting back or retrocession.

Definition 2024


recoilingly

recoilingly

English

Adverb

recoilingly (comparative more recoilingly, superlative most recoilingly)

  1. So as to recoil or shrink back.
    • Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn)
      That gangrene in the register of ill / From which men shrink with undisguised disgust, / According to the sternness of their hearts, / And from which women turn recoilingly []