Definitions
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- adverb With a motion like a
plunge .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The ship was sailing plungingly; astern the billows rolled in riots.
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These, blind and frenzied, would rush plungingly into the flames like horses at a fire.
The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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The ship was sailing plungingly; astern the billows rolled in riots.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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The ship was sailing plungingly; astern the billows rolled in riots.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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The ship was sailing plungingly; astern the billows rolled in riots.
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"I wanted to tell you --" Fred hesitated an instant and then went on plungingly, "I might go into the Church now; and really, look where I may, I can't see anything else to do.
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"I wanted to tell you --" Fred hesitated an instant and then went on plungingly, "I might go into the Church now; and really, look where I may, I can't see anything else to do.
Middlemarch 1871
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"I wanted to tell you --" Fred hesitated an instant and then went on plungingly, "I might go into the Church now; and really, look where I may, I can't see anything else to do.
Middlemarch George Eliot 1849
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