glowingly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English glowing

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English glowingly

From glowing + -ly.

Adverb

glowingly (comparative more glowingly, superlative most glowingly)

1. While giving off a glow.

   The spark hung there glowingly, then suddenly went out.

   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

     I lay stretching out, glowingly alive all over, and tossing with burning impatience for the renewal of joys that had sinned but in a sweet excess

2. With enthusiastic praise.

   He praised her glowingly; it was enough to make her blush.