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Caressingly

Definition: Caressingly

Caressingly

Adverb

1. In a gentle or caressing manner; "His voice was caressingly sweet".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "caressingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

 

Usage Frequency: Caressingly

"Caressingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Caressingly" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%1687,710

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Caressingly

Language Translations for "caressingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

χαϊδευτικά. (various references)

   

Manx

  

dy nuiddragh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aressinglycay

   

Turkish

  

kucaklayarak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Caressingly"

Words rhyming with "caressingly" (pronounced 'Ca*ress"ing*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Caressingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-r-s-s-y"

-2 letters: caressing, clearings, glycerins, layerings, rescaling, searingly, signalers, synergias, yearlings.

-3 letters: aligners, arcsines, arsenics, assigner, caginess, carlines, carlings, clangers, classier, classing, clearing, clingers, creasing, cringles, engrails, essaying, gainless, glaciers, glacises, glancers, glassier, glassine, glycerin, glycines, graciles, grassily, grayness, greasily, inlayers, laciness, lanciers, larynges, layering, leasings, nargiles, raciness, rainless, rassling, realigns, reassign, relacing, relaying.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-r-s-s-y"
 

+2 letters: reclassifying.

 

+3 letters: laryngoscopies.

 

+4 letters: congressionally, overclassifying, synergistically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Caressingly


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 72 65 73 73 69 6E 67 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    .-.    .    ...    ...    ..    -.    --.    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 0065 0073 0073 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3767847185857580737891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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