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Fillingly vs Fallingly - What's the difference?

fillingly | fallingly |

As adverbs the difference between fillingly and fallingly

is that fillingly is (rare) in a manner that fills while fallingly is while falling; with a falling motion.

fillingly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (rare) In a manner that fills.

    • fallingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • While falling; with a falling motion.
  • * 1915 , (Jack London), The Little Lady of the Big House
    • Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" — the first division of it rising in inflection, the second division inflected fallingly with despair.
  • * 1927 , Samuel Ornitz, A Yankee passional (page 111)
    • he lurched forward fallingly to receive him.