gleamingly

English

Etymology

gleaming +‎ -ly

Adverb

gleamingly (comparative more gleamingly, superlative most gleamingly)

  1. While gleaming, or so as to gleam.
    • 1822, “Epistle to W. W.”, in The Scots Magazine, volumes 89-90, page 314:
      And Hunt's tender heart's ease looks gleamingly out, […]
    • 1838, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Seraphim:
      "Gleamingly the Dead arise
      Viewing with their death-calmed eyes
      The elemental strategies"
    • 1852, Pierce Egan, The London Apprentice, and the Goldsmith's Daughter of West Chepe: A Tale in the Time of Bluff King Hal, Book ⅠⅠⅠ, Chapter ⅩⅩⅠⅠⅠ published in London by W. S. Johnson, p. 212
      "His horror became a madness ; his eyes ran gleamingly along the shore, to detect the demon hand that had in the very moment of his bliss struck from his heart the living impulse of his soul."
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