impressingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an impressing manner.
Example Sentences
- "So ſhall he always hit the right and touching ſenſibility of tone, and move his auditors, impreſſingly: […]"
- "In impressing upon his audience, that it was not the amount of worldly contributions, but the sacrifice made by the individual from his means, which found favor in the eye of heaven; the preacher impressingly referred his hearers to the history of the poor widow who cast in her two mites into the treasury, and the sublime sacrifice of all that was dear to human nature, which the Patriarch Abraham offered to make."
- "I then shook hands with him as impressingly as I could manage to, and advised him, as he wished to avoid an ignominious death, to make all possible speed to Boston, and then out of it, without stopping so much as to see whether I made an edifying death."
- "Moses went to make known this encouragement to the people; but, and the observation is impressingly suggestive, “they hearkened not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.”"
- "His sentences were exceedingly short, and his style impressingly simple."
- "(Impressingly,) I am content with my lot, sir."
Etymology
From impressing + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more impressingly (comparative)
most impressingly (superlative)