pouncingly

English

Etymology

pouncing +‎ -ly

Adverb

pouncingly (comparative more pouncingly, superlative most pouncingly)

1. In a pouncing manner; with a pouncing motion.
   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:

     The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.