Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a smooth, gliding, or flowing manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a gliding manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb With a motion that glides.

Etymologies

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gliding +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Jerry Constantino – Maybe BIC pen would have cheerier connotations, easily and economically replaceable, glidingly smooth, and not so much emphasis on the expensive jewelry angle.

    23 DOWN • by Jerry Constantino 2009

  • Then with horrible dread he became aware that she was coming slowly, glidingly, toward him and the spell that had kept him motionless broke and he shrank back among the pillows, his sound hand clenched upon the covering over him, his parched lips moving in dumb supplication.

    The Shadow of the East

  • There was an elf-like fascination about her child-like face and figure as she moved glidingly beside him -- a

    Innocent : her fancy and his fact Marie Corelli 1889

  • She was placed on a descending plank, to which she was attached by a chain and rope pulley, -- so that at any time of the weather or tide she could be moved glidingly downwards into deep water -- and this was what Valdemar occupied himself in doing.

    Thelma Marie Corelli 1889

  • Looking at her sweet face, earnest eyes, and slim graceful figure now, as she moved away from Florian Varillo's side, and passed glidingly in and out among her guests, the Princesse D'Agramont, always watchful, wondered with

    The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889

  • Higher and higher rose the bows out of the water, until some ten feet in length of the felucca was revealed, the deck gradually sloping until it assumed an almost perpendicular inclination, when slowly, silently, and glidingly, without a sob or gurgle of escaping air, the wreck slid backward and downward until it vanished beneath the waters, now gleaming in gold and crimson with the last rays of the setting sun.

    A Pirate of the Caribbees Harry Collingwood 1886

  • Gibbie gazed and wondered; and while he gazed -- slowly, glidingly, back to his mind came the ghost-mother of the ballad, and in every daisy he saw her folding her neglected orphans to her bosom, while the darkness and the misery rolled by defeated.

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • Slowly, glidingly, the figure turned round; turned its face right upon Dan, full in the rays of the bright moon; and the most awful yell you ever heard went forth upon the still night air.

    Verner's Pride Henry Wood 1850

  • The light that long ago had struck me into syncope, recalled in this vision, seemed glidingly to mount the wall, and tremblingly to pause in the centre of the obscured ceiling.

    Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II. 1848

  • Lucretia till the last walked glidingly, but firmly, up to her, placed

    Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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