compressingly

English

Etymology

From compressing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

compressingly (not comparable)

1. So as to compress.
   • 1843, Charles Reece Pemberton, William Johnson Fox, Sir John Fowler, The Life and Literary Remains of Charles Reece Pemberton, page 192:

     The first touch of the strings thrilled through her every limb: she shook with a convulsive motion, and drew her arms and elbows close, compressingly, against her sides, and clapped her little hands in ecstacy, […]