ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Recoilingly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Recoilingly is an adverb meaning So as to recoil or shrink back.

Meaning

So as to recoil or shrink back.

Example Sentences

1865, Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn), Old Without Years That gangrene in the register of ill / From which men shrink with undisguised disgust, / According to the sternness of their hearts, / And from which women turn recoilingly […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include back, repulsingly, rejectingly, deflatingly, decliningly, down.

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