predictingly

In a predicting manner.

Adverb

  1. In a predicting manner.
    • Apollo. [Predictingly.] Yet assuredly thou wilt relax, although thou art mighty stubborn: such a man will come to the house of Phérës, Eurýstheus having sent him after a chariot of horses from the wintry regions of...
    • I remained sitting in thought, there came from out the far wood of Vollraz something white; it was a rider upon a white horse; the animal looked like a spirit, his soft canter sounded to me predictingly; - 1838, The...
    • We will add what we said predictingly on this very subject in our Number for June 1837, as it expresses our opinion still; only unhappily confirmed by recent experience. - 1845 February, “The Painted Window for the...

Origin

From predicting + -ly.

Forms

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