fallingly
While falling; with a falling motion.
Adverb
- While falling; with a falling motion.
- Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" — the first division of it rising in...
- […] he lurched forward fallingly to receive him. - 1927, Samuel Ornitz, A Yankee passional, page 111:
Origin
From falling + -ly.