speaking
noun
the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
speakingly
-
a word derived from
speaking.
Example Sentences
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There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences.
From Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The father arose; his eyes flashed lightning; and though his shape was speakingly beautiful, yet his whole frame appeared a highly susceptible fluid, which betrayed every affection in manifold and enchanting undulations.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg
He held out his hand and clasped hers speakingly, the lips unbent then, though they went back to the grave lines of thought and interest and purpose.
From Say and Seal, Volume II by Susan Warner
Join with us, lady: thy spotless soul may obtain an exemption from the judgments which the portents of these days but too speakingly denounce against thy house.”
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
And even if we can neither commend nor recommend heroes like Tom Jones, such young men really existed, and the likeness is speakingly drawn: we bear with his faults because of his reality.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
