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attractingly

adverb

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adv

Etymology: From attracting + -ly.

  1. In such a way as to attract.

    1618, Michael Baret, An Hipponomie or the Vineyard of Horsemanship, London, prefatory letter to Book 2, […] the Osmund or Magneticall stone […] hath the two Poles (the one of them being of contrary qualitie to the other) the Axis, Equator, Meridians, Parallels, and so all the other Circles naturally and sensibly, as are imagined or fained to bee in the Heauens. All which the directory or inclinatory needles, will attractingly deliniate by their conformity and vnion, at conuenient Angles,

    The beauties of your Charlotte, both mental and bodily, are indeed too attractingly eminent to be easily worn from the memory of a man, who hath not only possess’d, but so greatly contributed to polish them.