Definitions
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- adverb With a
bounding motion.
Etymologies
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bounding + -ly
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Examples
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Before them, like a Christmas tree glimpsed through lace curtains, they beheld joy shimmering -- music, ice-cream, macaroons, tinsel caps, and the starched ladies of their hearts Penrod and Sam walked demurely yet almost boundingly; their faces were shining but grave -- they were on their way to the Party!
Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907
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Lies like this can be hard to spot because you want to believe that somewhere in the world, families could be as plainly (100\% wheat) happy and carefree and wheat-boundingly healthy as that.
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