adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a breathing manner; with or as with life or animation; gently as a breath.
1815. Examiner, 19 March, 14/2. Anatomical science, and a feeling and study breathingly alive to historical description, are seen in Mr. Gahagan’s Judith and Holofernes.
1830. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXVIII. 527/1. Perfect spiritual health, breathingly embodied in perfect corporeal flesh and blood.
a. 1859. L. Hunt, Poems (1860), 236. A rill that slips Over the sunny pebbles breathingly.
