Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a ranting manner

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  • adverb In a ranting manner.

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  • adverb With ranting.

Etymologies

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ranting +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The mud slinging I read here is almost a joke, if it were not so rantingly & resentfully joyful.

    Illinois A.G. Petitions Court to Remove Blagojevich - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Whitredge's summing-up was as lame in effect as it was rantingly emotional.

    Branded Francis Lynde 1893

  • As for style overriding the worst of indignities, has not Scotia given her poet to the slack dependant of the gallows-tree, who so rantingly played his jig and wheeled it round in the shadow of that institution?

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • As for style overriding the worst of indignities, has not Scotia given her poet to the slack dependant of the gallows-tree, who so rantingly played his jig and wheeled it round in the shadow of that institution?

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • As for style overriding the worst of indignities, has not Scotia given her poet to the slack dependant of the gallows-tree, who so rantingly played his jig and wheeled it round in the shadow of that institution?

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Sometimes Route Irish is hard to follow, and its rantingly loud and pessimistic ending is not the finest that Loach and his regular screenwriter

    Evening Standard - Home Derek Malcolm 2011

  • At Speaker’s Corner, the famous pressure valve of British democracy on the edge of London’s Hyde Park, he dresses up as a bum and rantingly proclaims the truth of Scientology (Thetans!

    An Atheist Walks Into a Bar … 2008

  • At Speaker’s Corner, the famous pressure valve of British democracy on the edge of London’s Hyde Park, he dresses up as a bum and rantingly proclaims the truth of Scientology (Thetans!

    An Atheist Walks Into a Bar … 2008

  • Sae rantingly, &c. CONTENTS·BOOK CONTENTS·BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD·GLOSSARY

    Song-M’Pherson’s Farewell 1909

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