trappingly

English

Etymology

trapping +‎ -ly

Adverb

trappingly (not comparable)

1. (rare) So as to trap someone or something.
   • 1906, Sir James Henry Yoxall, Beyond the Wall, page 11:

     Walls waited for him cunningly within the square blotch of darkness which the dormer's casement framed; if he passed himself within the casement the frame would enlarge into walls about him, trappingly, […]