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Vinony

woundingly

adverb

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adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English wounding Middle English -ly English -ly English woundingly From wounding + -ly.

  1. In a way that wounds

    “But when the playwright Lynn Nottage spoke the first two words of the title to Congolese women in the refugee camps of Uganda in 2004, she said, they repeated them in such a way that the words became woundingly new.”