drivingly
English
editEtymology
editAdverb
editdrivingly (comparative more drivingly, superlative most drivingly)
- So as to drive or motivate.
- 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl[1], Part 4, Chapter 34:
- Keep her eyes, for the time, from her husband’s as she might, she soon found herself much more drivingly conscious of the strain on his own wit.
- With forceful, inexorable motion.
- 1870, The Shamrock, volume 8, page 18:
- One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]
- (engineering) So as to drive.