ˈpressingly, adv.
[f. pressing ppl. a. + -ly2.]
In a pressing manner; urgently; importunately.
| 1642 Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 33 The one contracts and enchaines his words, and speakes pressingly and short. a 1661 B. Holyday Juvenal 125 First, in respect of the express testimonie of the poet;..secondly, and more pressingly (as I think) because of the absurd consequence. 1760 C. Johnston Chrysal (1822) II. 149 My motive for writing to you so pressingly to come to me. 1871 Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. (1883) I. 392 W. E. Forster..pressingly hospitable, took us home with him. |