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Definition of Flickeringly
1. adv. In a flickering manner.
Definition of Flickeringly
1. Adverb. In a flickering manner ¹
2. Adverb. Briefly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flickeringly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flickeringly
Literary usage of Flickeringly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories by Stephen Crane (1997)
"... that there must be an agency—somethingthat could explain it all, and probably
caused it is also tantalizingly and flickeringly present. ..."
2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1884)
"It had the appearance of a pure smokeless flame, half a dozen inches long, rising
from the water and bending flickeringly along its surface. ..."
3. The Natural History of Some Common Animals: A Book of Animal Life by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1904)
"The cool shadows and thin lights touched it flickeringly as it went, and never
a grass-top stirred to mark its sinister approach. Without a sound of warning ..."
4. A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the Development in Modes by Seymour Dunbar (1915)
"... and guttering away in the bleak air off the water, shown flickeringly on the
emaciated features of a man in the last stage of a bilious remittent fever. ..."
5. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"Frequently the discharge continues flickeringly (on rare occasions even steady,
like a white-hot wire) during a perceptible time—occasionally a full second. ..."
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