adv. [f. SPARKLING ppl. a.1] In a sparkling or vivacious manner; with sparkling brightness or brilliancy; brilliantly.
1669. Boyle, Cert. Physiol. Ess., etc. (ed. 2), Absol. Rest Bodies, 18. Some Diamonds of hers, which sometimes would look more sparklingly than they were wont, and sometimes far more dull than ordinary.
1820. Wiffen, Aonian Hours (ed. 2), 13. In whose glass All things look sparklingly.
1854. Tait’s Mag., XXI. 269/2.
| Spurted the splinters sparklingly, saw scraped, and hammer rung, | |
| While keeping time his quaint old song the gray old master sung. |
1879. G. Meredith, Egoist, vii. She assured him sparklingly that she was well.
So Sparklingness. rare.
a. 1691. Boyle, Ess. Intestine Motions Quiescent Solids, Wks. 1744, I. 286/2. I have … seemed to my self to observe a manifestly greater clearness and sparklingness at some times than at others.
a. 1697. Aubrey, Lives (1898), II. 245. He threw his reparties about the table with so much sparklingness [ed. 1813 sparkliness] and gentileness of witt.
