digressingly

By way of digression.

Adverb

  1. By way of digression.
    • A little digressingly, the entire problem of the mint area and the chronology of the Gajapati Pagoda series may be surveyed here in brief. - 1969, Journal of the Asiatic Society, volumes 11-14, page 167:
    • Incidentally (and digressingly), the word “wreck” has a certain singular significance in mushing circles, if you've been around the game as long as I have. - 2013, Jim Lanier, Beyond Ophir:

Origin

From digressing + -ly.