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Definition of Damagingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Damagingly
Literary usage of Damagingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"A meritorious Bill for doing away with a Church scandal, on which Mr. Punch's
batteries have often and damagingly opened, was read a Second Time. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"His descriptions of the drinking habits and other ' diversions ' of the Mogul
princesses are damagingly circumstantial, and the account of ..."
3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"... as leading him astray: and the taste for jaunty per- Wilson leads him astray
still further, and still more gravely and damagingly. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1884)
"Will they venture to say that affairs could, under any new set of ministers, be
more unsuccessfully or more damagingly managed than they have been during ..."
5. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"legitimately—in the serious poems less legitimately, but more damagingly,—the
defects of mere imitation, and of going to Milton instead of to Shakespeare ..."
6. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1900) by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... cannot be said to have improved even his prose work are, from the nature of
the case, far more evident, and far more damagingly evident, in his verse. ..."
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