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Definition of Invitingly
1. Adverb. In a tantalizing manner. "She smiled at him tantalizingly"
Definition of Invitingly
1. Adverb. In an inviting manner; so as to attract; attractively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Invitingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Invitingly
Literary usage of Invitingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English by John Walker (1823)
"the act of inviting, bidding Invite, iii-v'ili.1. va to bid, to ask invitingly,
in-vl'tlng-l«. ad. in such a man* ner as invites or allures ..."
2. The Playground and the Parlour: A Handbook of Boys' Games, Sports, and by Alfred Elliott (1868)
"The rest of the company advance in turn, each administering a slap to the hand
lying so invitingly open, and it is the sufferer's business to detect, ..."
3. Reporting Reminiscences by William Carnie (1902)
"... of some unfaithful girth or trace the whole hypothec might be unceremoniously
sent headlong into the Dee, which flows so sweetly and invitingly below. ..."
4. The Academy: A Journal of Secondary Education by Associated Principles of the High Schools and Academies of the State of New York (1890)
"Knowing his splendid power in mathematics and physics, I advised the higher course
in these studies, and made it "invitingly possible. ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
""Curiously P; rather invitingly P." "Rather invitingly P. The inviting part is
carried in kinaesthetic tendencies to move forward. Later it became faintly U ..."
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