edifyingly
adverb
- in an instructive/improving manner (often ironically)
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adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English edifying Middle English -ly English -ly English edifyingly From edifying + -ly.
- In such a manner as to instruct or enlighten.
“They hung the man from the Adler. […] Down he fell, hands and feet extended, until with a jerk he was at the end of the rope. Then he ought to have died and swung edifyingly, but instead a more terrible thing happened; his head came right off, and down the body went.”