English edit

Etymology edit

receding +‎ -ly

Adverb edit

recedingly (comparative more recedingly, superlative most recedingly)

  1. While receding or moving away.
    • 2007 July 16, Ginia Bellafante, “Campus Sex Scandal Today for Leaders of Tomorrow”, in New York Times[1]:
      Evan has fooled around with Rebecca, a senator’s daughter and, thus by virtue of her lineage, one of his girlfriend’s prized pledges at Zeta Beta Zeta, a sorority not for the inadequately shaven or recedingly ambitious.