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Definition of Captivatingly
1. Adverb. In a bewitching manner. "She was bewitchingly beautiful"
Partainyms: Bewitching, Captivating, Enchanting, Enthralling
Definition of Captivatingly
1. Adverb. In a captivating manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Captivatingly
Literary usage of Captivatingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"She was distinctly and unaccountably embar- a-ssed. He enjoyed the spectacle.
It made 1 human. It made her captivatingly Something rose and gripped him ..."
2. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"... and no one else could have delivered his lectures so effectively and captivatingly
as he. The hand that ho gave you in greeting was large and firm; ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1894)
"Spring never arrayed herself in beauty more captivatingly childlike than on the
mid-May morning when we arrived at Killarney. She had been weeping, ..."
4. Victorian Prose Masters: Thackeray--Carlyle--George Eliot--Matthew Arnold by William Crary Brownell (1901)
"He was, in fact, captivatingly synthetic. All aesthetic phenomena of which he
treated — and the detail of them is prodigious in number and multifarious- ..."
5. A History of the Pianoforte and Pianoforte Players by Oskar Bie, Ernest Edward Kellett, Edward Woodall Naylor (1899)
"... it had painted on it those rich pictures with which the spinet, when it began
to take its place among household furniture, was so captivatingly adorned. ..."
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