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Vinony

recoilingly

adverb

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Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: From recoiling + -ly.

  1. So as to recoil or shrink back.

    “1865, Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn), Old Without Years That gangrene in the register of ill / From which men shrink with undisguised disgust, / According to the sternness of their hearts, / And from which women turn recoilingly […]”