Skip to content

destroyingly

adverb

No English definition recorded for this entry.

L188823 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: From destroying + -ly.

  1. In a way that destroys.

    Tho' Ruin now Love's shadow be, / Following him, destroyingly, / On Death's white and winged steed, / Which the fleetest cannot flee, [...]

    the voice of a storm that sweeps destroyingly over forest and mountain