impressingly

In an impressing manner.

Adverb

  1. In an impressing manner.
    • So ſhall he always hit the right and touching ſenſibility of tone, and move his auditors, impreſſingly: […] - a. 1751, Aaron Hill, “An Essay on the Art of Acting”, in The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq; […], volume...
    • In impressing upon his audience, that it was not the amount of worldly contributions, but the sacrifice made by the individual from his means, which found favor in the eye of heaven; the preacher impressingly referred...
    • I then shook hands with him as impressingly as I could manage to, and advised him, as he wished to avoid an ignominious death, to make all possible speed to Boston, and then out of it, without stopping so much as to see...

Origin

From impressing + -ly.

Forms

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