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Definition of Bowingly
1. adv. In a bending manner.
Definition of Bowingly
1. Adverb. in a bowing manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bowingly
1. in a bowing manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowingly
Literary usage of Bowingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Klesmer had really discerned Mirah in the first moment of entering, but with
subtle polite, ness he looked round bowingly at the three sisters as if he were ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"moment of entering, but with subtle politeness he looked round bowingly at the
three sisters, as if he were uncertain which was the young lady in question. ..."
3. Richard Croker by Alfred Henry Lewis (1901)
"... when hundreds thronged the Democratic Club, among them men of money and others
who had filled the highest places of state, and all beamingly, bowingly, ..."
4. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1849)
"... which was a very great meeting, and were very bowingly opened by the power
and virtue of God's blessed Truth ; in the afternoon at Grace Church Street, ..."
5. The Coming Struggle in Eastern Asia by Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale (1908)
"... once more you grumblingly pay the ordered sums which custom demands and are
then bowingly franked forward ; and thus retracing your steps and adding to ..."
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