adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a speaking or eloquent manner; strikingly.

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1633.  Brome, Antipodes (1640), v. 4. A Mute is one that acteth speakingly, And yet sayes nothing.

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1746.  Hervey, Medit. (1818), 241. How solemnly they recognize the fate of others, and speakingly remind us of our own!

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1765.  H. Walpole, Otranto, iv. (1798), 75. The judgments which the portents of these days but too speakingly denounce against thy house.

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1831.  Fraser’s Mag., IV. 286/1. It is surprisingly clever, and speakingly characteristic.

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  So Speakingness. rare.

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1851.  J. Brown, Lett. (1907), 94. Such a voice for … sweetness, and power—and a certain speakingness.

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