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副詞

droppingly (not comparable)

1. In drops; one drop at a time.
   • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Vision of Poets”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 270767504:

     The birds sang and brake off again
     To shake their pretty feathers dry
     Of the dew sliding droppingly
     From the leaf-edges

2. bit by bit; one at a time
   • 1614, Daniel Dyke, The Mystery of Selfe-Deceiuing:

     our prayers come but droppingly from vs afterward in the ebbe of our affections

関連する語

• jaw-droppingly

参照

• droppingly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913