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PRESSINGLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pressingly mean?
• PRESSINGLY (adverb)
The adverb PRESSINGLY has 1 sense:
1. in a pressing manner
Familiarity information: PRESSINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a pressing manner
Pertainym:
pressing (compelling immediate action)
Context examples
According to Miss Bates—it all came from her—Mrs. Dixon had written most pressingly.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
These were always males, and they were pressingly insistent on joining with One Eye and his mate.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
When at length they arose to take leave, Mrs. Bennet was most pressingly civil in her hope of seeing the whole family soon at Longbourn, and addressed herself especially to Mr. Bingley, to assure him how happy he would make them by eating a family dinner with them at any time, without the ceremony of a formal invitation.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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