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prolongingly
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English
Etymology
From prolonging + -ly.
Adverb
prolongingly (comparative more prolongingly, superlative most prolongingly)
- So as to prolong or lengthen.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 128, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- a voice that prolongingly moulded every word
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