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recoilingly

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

So as to recoil or shrink back.

Examples

“1865, Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn), Old Without Years That gangrene in the register⟳ of ill / From which men shrink⟳ with undisguised disgust, / According to the sternness of their hearts, / And from which women turn⟳ recoilingly […]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

recoillessly recollectedly recollectingly recollectively recombinantly recombinationally

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