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Definition of Limpingly
1. adv. In a limping manner.
Definition of Limpingly
1. Adverb. In a limping manner; with a limp. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Limpingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limpingly
Literary usage of Limpingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1898)
"tages should progress so limpingly ; if navigation were completed and the Shenandoah
opened, the company would be the most profitable in the United States; ..."
2. The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus (1887)
"... the sooty Vulcan may now renew his wonted custom of making the other gods
laugh by his hopping so limpingly, and coming off with so many dry jokes, ..."
3. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1896)
"In 1887 the State Teachers' Association secured the enactment of a township
library law, which, though it went limpingly to its work, has led the way to our ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1905)
"... to the side of the printers when they carried the last copyright amendment;
hence it was that copyright was so begrudgingly, so limpingly bestowed as to ..."
5. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1900)
"... well suited to buffoonery, hobbles along without rest and limpingly, floundering
in the mud which it delights in, as foul and as dull as that of the ..."
6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"Walks limpingly on left leg; can just about stand alone on left foot. Pupils equal;
no distinct hippus. Vision in left eye possibly impaired, ..."
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