loweringly

English

Etymology

From lowering +‎ -ly.

Adverb

loweringly (comparative more loweringly, superlative most loweringly)

1. (dated) In a lowering manner; menacingly; with cloudiness or gloom.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Ahab stood apart; and every time the tetering ship loweringly pitched down her ​bowsprit, he turned to eye the bright sun’s rays […]

   • 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     He shambled along with bowed head, his brain in a tumult of agony and despair. When he looked loweringly up, quivering at each sound, his eyes had the expression of those of a criminal who thinks his guilt and his punishment great, and knows that he can find no words.

   • 1905, Bernard Capes, A Jay of Italy, Chapter 4:

     As he stood, loweringly phlegmatic as any caged hate, his peering eyes and snarling lip would occasionally lift themselves together, not towards the glittering lord of destinies on the dais, but towards his henchman, the Greek, who would answer the challenge with a stare of serene and opulent contempt.

References

• “loweringly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.