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- adverb So as to
compare .
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Examples
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Historically and topically; comparingly and contrastingly.
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She could not, when he looked upon her so silently and comparingly, repress her sympathy; she wept, and he too.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910
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In time the craving was evolved for positive knowledge, and shells and stones and weeds were deposited on the library-table at Copsley, botanical and geological books comparingly examined, Emma Dunstane always eager to assist; for the samples wafted her into the heart of the woods.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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In time the craving was evolved for positive knowledge, and shells and stones and weeds were deposited on the library-table at Copsley, botanical and geological books comparingly examined, Emma Dunstane always eager to assist; for the samples wafted her into the heart of the woods.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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In time the craving was evolved for positive knowledge, and shells and stones and weeds were deposited on the library-table at Copsley, botanical and geological books comparingly examined, Emma Dunstane always eager to assist; for the samples wafted her into the heart of the woods.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868
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