aspiringly
English
Adverb
aspiringly (comparative more aspiringly, superlative most aspiringly)
- In an aspiring manner.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
- to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward
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