Definitions

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  • adverb In great numbers; crowdedly.

Etymologies

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teeming +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Magical realism was invented, or reinvented, to address realities that seemed unmanageable — too big, too bizarre, too teemingly chaotic — for the ordinary modes of realistic fiction.

    On the Fatal Shore Banville, John 2002

  • The spring warmth had brought out the smells of lower New York teemingly.

    Uncle William: the man who was shif'less Jennette Barbour Perry Lee 1905

  • Its sun is only too blazingly bright, its river plains too teemingly fertile, its mountains too grand even in the grander monotony of its deserts.

    A Houseful of Girls Sarah Tytler 1870

  • Zack Snyder's teemingly ambitious, jam-packed movie version.

    EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines 2009

  • Zack Snyder's teemingly ambitious, jam-packed movie version.

    EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines 2009

  • Behind the village there is an extensive field under fine cultivation — perhaps it may measure 500 acres; but its appearance was greatly injured by irregular enclosures, or rather division lines, formed of loose stones running on the surface, intersecting and crossing each other in every possible direction, for the purpose of marking the plot claimed by each individual or family: the whole is cultivated with much skill and industry, the soil teemingly rich, and the labour abundant, with here and there small water-courses and aqueducts.

    Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River 1913

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