shrinkingly
In a shrinking manner; as if shrinking away
Adverb
- In a shrinking manner; as if shrinking away
- That shy-looking fellow standing against the curtain at your right, with the brown mustache and broad forehead, is the New England sculptor whose forcible creations are known everywhere, yet he is almost shrinkingly...
- Nor, if we turn to the present, is the evidence much stronger which is offered by the gens de couleur whom you may see in the quadroon quarter this afternoon, with "Ichabod" legible on their murky foreheads through a...
- For half a century that faithful servant of Jehovah suffered, often shrinkingly, yet voluntarily, a constant martyrdom. - 1911, Charles Foster Kent, The Makers and Teachers of Judaism:
Origin
From shrinking + -ly.