advancingly

English

Etymology

advancing +‎ -ly

Adverb

advancingly (comparative more advancingly, superlative most advancingly)

1. In an advancing manner.

   Synonym: progressively

   • 1820, James Mudie, An Historical and Critical Account of a Grand Series of National Medals,‎^[1], London: Henry Colburn, page 112:

     The graceful and animated figure with a Sword in one hand and a Victor’s Crown in the other, and mounted advancingly on the ramparts, explicitly shew the mode in which the place was taken by storm.

   • 1906, Frank Townend Barton, chapter 17, in Horses: Their Points and Management in Health and Disease‎^[2], London: Everett, page 298:

     in [old horses] the disease is advancingly destructive

   • 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail, published 2005, page 66:

     I haven’t been privy to the month-by-month deterioration of marriages once robust; I haven’t sniffed the sickly sweet waft of gin off the breath of a formerly industrious realtor at advancingly earlier hours of the afternoon.