adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a swelling manner; with swelling form or outline; also, with swelling sound; fig. grandiloquently, † bombastically.

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a. 1652.  Brome, City Wit, IV. i. As for Corantoes, &c.—I speak it not swellingly, but I subscribe to no man.

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1833.  L. Ritchie, Wand. Loire, 180. Meadows and cultivated fields sweep swellingly away from the water’s edge.

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1839.  Fraser’s Mag., XIX. 215. No longer Pyrrhias, Dromio, Tibias, But Megabyzus, Megacles, Protarchus Swellingly styled.

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1879.  Meredith, Egoist, vii. He was of a sensitiveness terribly tender. A single stroke on it reverberated swellingly within the man.

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1894.  Cornh. Mag., Jan., 91. As burly a billow of cloud as ever sailed swellingly over the broad Atlantic.

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