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- adverb In a way that
relieves .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have no idea, ultimately, whether this pervasive pampering is relievingly refreshing or solipsisticly despair-inducing.
Zac Hill: Being Cool With Having Stuff: At-Least-Potentially Guilt-Free Super Bowl Cruising Zac Hill 2011
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Overall, Governor Palin's appeal to a Nation of Third Graders came off relievingly well compared to her other recent, unstructured activities with adults like Charles Gibson and Katie Couric.
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Newsome, and had found the place, even in company, such a refuge from the obsession of his problem that, with renewed pressure from that source, he had not unnaturally recurred to a remedy meeting the case, for the moment, so indirectly, no doubt, but so relievingly.
The Ambassadors 2003
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It too wished to shriek relievingly, like the inanimate night, and publish its sickness abroad.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Casa Grande blazed a welcome to us, as we drove up to it, and the children, thank heaven, were relievingly boisterous over the adventure of their dad's return.
The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912
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