Definitions
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- adverb In a
pouncing manner; with a pouncing motion.
Etymologies
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pouncing + -ly
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Examples
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She spoke so pouncingly that the fork she held upright seemed like a weapon with which she was about to pinion him.
The Years 2004
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He said, pouncingly, "You're running on, inconsequently, just to divert my mind from asking you again who or what Touclé is."
The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
The Bat Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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