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Definition of Losingly
1. adv. In a manner to incur loss.
Definition of Losingly
1. Adverb. In a manner that loses or will lose. ¹
2. Adverb. (rare or obsolete) In a manner that causes loss. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Losingly
1. in a manner characterized by defeat [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Losingly
Literary usage of Losingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of Henry James by Henry James (1920)
"... or anything but an accident, for me, of the parental life there to which I
occasionally and painfully and losingly sacrificed, I have a superstitions ..."
2. Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry (1890)
"... is not only to destroy a Gain to both parties, but also to interfere losingly
with a natural and inalienable Right belonging to both. ..."
3. Flodden Field: A Tragedy by Alfred Austin (1903)
"An hour is longer than I thought, its tick, Like to a sickly and enfeebled pulse,
losingly laggard! Hie you, Margery, Hie to the topmost spiral of the tower ..."
4. Germany as it is Today by Cyril Brown (1918)
"... old caste and class lines variably changing, vanishing or stubbornly, and in
most cases losingly, struggling for continued existence ..."
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