recoilingly

English

Etymology

From recoiling +‎ -ly.

Adverb

recoilingly (comparative more recoilingly, superlative most recoilingly)

  1. So as to recoil or shrink back.
    • 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 […]
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