Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a thriving or prosperous way; prosperously.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a thriving manner.

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  • adverb So as to thrive.

Etymologies

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thriving +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I say: "If you take the time and effort to really understand a person's character values in relation to your own, then the two of you will over the long haul be blessed with a thrivingly, fruitful relationship."

    Karen Salmansohn: The Psychology Of Love Versus Evil 2009

  • I say: If you take the time and effort to really understand a person's character values in relation to your own, then the two of you will over the long haul be blessed with a thrivingly, fruitful relationship.

    Karen Salmansohn: The 1-Minute Therapist -- The Important Difference Between Romance and Intimacy 2008

  • With this object, large bodies of the soldiery were several times despatched to the Mansion House to await his orders: but as he could, by no threats or persuasions, be induced to give any, and as the men remained in the open street, fruitlessly for any good purpose, and thrivingly for a very bad one; these laudable attempts did harm rather than good.

    Barnaby Rudge 2007

  • Just what is copyright, what is its point, who is it designed to protect (individual creators and their legatees, be they individual or corporate, and necessarily to the same extent?) and what is it designed to foster (the most thrivingly fertile intellectual community and intercourse possible?)

    Comedies of fair use, event at NY Institute for the Humanities Claire 2006

  • Just what is copyright, what is its point, who is it designed to protect (individual creators and their legatees, be they individual or corporate, and necessarily to the same extent?) and what is it designed to foster (the most thrivingly fertile intellectual community and intercourse possible?)

    Archive 2006-04-01 Claire 2006

  • He had driven past a couple of times to gaze at their home, as much as he could through those thrivingly thick hedge ramparts.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • The St. Louis of Lilly's little girlhood, sprung so thrivingly from the left bank of the Mississippi and builded on the dead mounds of a dead past, was even then inexplicably turning its back to its fine river frontage; stretching in the form of a great adolescent giant, prone, legs flung to the west and full of growing pains, arms outstretched and curving downward in a great north-and-south yawn.

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

  • With this object, large bodies of the soldiery were several times despatched to the Mansion House to await his orders: but as he could, by no threats or persuasions, be induced to give any, and as the men remained in the open street, fruitlessly for any good purpose, and thrivingly for a very bad one; these laudable attempts did harm rather than good.

    Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892

  • With this object, large bodies of the soldiery were several times dispatched to the Mansion House to await his orders: but as he could by no threats or persuasions be induced to give any, and as the men remained in the open street, -- fruitlessly for any good purpose, and thrivingly for a very bad one, -- these laudable attempts did harm rather than good.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • With this object, large bodies of the soldiery were several times despatched to the Mansion House to await his orders: but as he could, by no threats or persuasions, be induced to give any, and as the men remained in the open street, fruitlessly for any good purpose, and thrivingly for a very bad one; these laudable attempts did harm rather than good.

    Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Charles Dickens 1841

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