Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a bending manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a bending manner.
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- adverb in a
bowing manner
Etymologies
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bowing + -ly
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Examples
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He had surrendered their bicycles to the odd man of the place with infinite easy dignity, and had bowingly opened the door for Jessie.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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Klesmer had really discerned Mirah in the first moment of entering, but, with subtle politeness, he looked round bowingly at the three sisters as if he were uncertain which was the young lady in question.
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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