passingly, adv.
(ˈpɑːsɪŋlɪ, -æ-)
[f. passing ppl. a. + -ly2.]
In a passing manner. a. For the time, temporarily (obs.); in passing, cursorily.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter xlviii. 1 Þat ȝe here not passandly, all þat wonnys þe warld. 1340 Ayenb. 172 Þe zeneȝere ssel guo in-to his house..naȝt pasindeliche ase þe iogelour þat ne blefþ naȝt bleþeliche in his house. 1530 Palsgr. 383 All these actes be but passyngly brought in. 1684 in Wodrow Hist. Ch. Scot. (1722) II. iii. viii. 388 Not having been for several Years there, but passingly. 1836 Fraser's Mag. XIV. 633 They are passingly noticed in the last stanza. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conq. II. xii. 289 Victor commented passingly on the soundness of them. |
b. In a surpassing degree or manner, surpassingly; pre-eminently, exceedingly; = passing adv. (qualifying adj., adv., vb.). arch.
| c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 315 Þei ben passyngliche holy. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 483 Oon preysed hym in metre passingliche in þis manere. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 2537 Passandly sho loued cuthbert. 1470–85 Malory Arthur iii. iii, He was passyngly wel vysaged and passyngly wel made. 1587 M. Grove Pelops & Hipp. (1878) 56 She loues their wisdome passinglie. 1638 Ford Fancies iv. i, You, forsooth,..were contented, Passingly pleased. 1887 Harper's Mag. June 37, I, who thought myself so strong, am passingly weak. |