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MOVINGLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does movingly mean?
• MOVINGLY (adverb)
The adverb MOVINGLY has 1 sense:
1. in a moving manner
Familiarity information: MOVINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a moving manner
Context example:
she sang movingly
Pertainym:
moving (arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion)
Context examples
After dinner, Don Pedro came to me, and desired to know my reason for so desperate an attempt; assured me, he only meant to do me all the service he was able; and spoke so very movingly, that at last I descended to treat him like an animal which had some little portion of reason.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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