[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That attracts: a. physically; b. emotionally, attractive (? obs.). Hence Attractingly adv.
1661. Morgan, Sph. of Gentry, III. v. 53. The … attracting songs of the Syrens.
1753. Richardson, Grandison, I. iv. 16. The most attracting ornament in it.
c. 1790. Imison, Sch. Art, II. 163. Place the two attracting poles … on the middle of one of the bars.
1850. Daubeny, Atom. The., iv. 117. The attracting force of the atom of a given body.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., VII. lv. IV. 103. She had been attractingly wrought upon by the refined negations he presented to her.
