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Definition of Raspingly
1. Adverb. In a harsh and grating manner. "Her voice fell gratingly on our ears"
Definition of Raspingly
1. Adverb. In a rasping way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Raspingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raspingly
Literary usage of Raspingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian by Edward King (1875)
"... disposed towards the negroes, despite his rough ways, broke into appeal,
threat, and entreaty, crying out raspingly and with, oaths, " You, Reuben! ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"He was raspingly beating the air, thirty feet above my outspread provisions and
cooking utensils, ..."
3. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"Thereupon he sang—raspingly, incisively, not gently or sweetly (the voice was
hard), but transcending training and agreeableness by reason of the cry of ..."
4. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"Thereupon he sang—raspingly, incisively, not gently or sweetly (the voice was
hard), but transcending training and agreeableness by reason of ..."
5. The British Empire and the United States: A Review of Their Relations During by William Archibald Dunning, James Bryce Bryce (1914)
"... such a protest a despatch that raspingly refu to concede the American demand.
ised With Aberdeen at the Foreign Office the toner of the correspondence ..."
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