Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like what is in a melted state; liquidly.
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Examples
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Where trees allowed glimpses, the hills above were purple-black, the snow-caps in the distance moltenly aglow.
The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985
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You could see it smelted and fired by the heat of the lightning; its strange ores glittered moltenly in the slanted sun.
The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962
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We do not mean what is technically called a living language, -- the contrivance, hollow as a speaking-trumpet, by which breathing and moving bipeds, even now, sailing o'er life's solemn main, are enabled to hail each other and make known their mutual shortness of mental stores, -- but one that is still hot from the hearts and brains of a people, not hardened yet, but moltenly ductile to new shapes of sharp and clear relief in the moulds of new thought.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
vanishedone commented on the word moltenly
Not ordinarily an adjective, whatever the citation on dingo-eat-dingo might suggest. (The source is riddled with deliberate typos.)
October 28, 2008