Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an improving manner.
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- adverb In a manner that tends to
improve (especially, (dated ), to educate or morally better a person).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet there he sat, strewing himself with snuff to keep himself awake, blinking with dim eyes at her, wondering for ever at her inscrutable nature, conversing improvingly upon his cases in the courts, or upon his growing fortune that he computed nightly like a miser.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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She decides to take a small walk however -- small because she simply must get to bed before Mrs. Winters comes back and starts talking at her improvingly.
Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920
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The ledger might have been notes that she was dutifully and improvingly taking.
Lady Baltimore Owen Wister 1899
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Having failed to cope with us directly, she adopted the plan of talking improvingly to our mother and at us, and very severe some of her remarks were, and I don't believe that Mother liked them any better than we did.
We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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Not that they would always, or indeed generally, spend it improvingly, but it is their only day of rest.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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Each has received four-star "improvingly strongly" ratings for the fourth year in a row.
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Each has received four-star "improvingly strongly" ratings for the fourth year in a row.
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