adv. Obs. or dial. [f. THRONG a. + -LY2.] Thickly, densely; busily.

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1653.  H. More, Conject. Cabbal., ii. § 7. The World of Life, which is everywhere nigh at hand, and does very throngly inequitate the moist and unctuous Aire.

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1727.  Bailey, vol. II., Throngly … pressingly, crowdingly.

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  So Throngness, the state of being ‘throng’ or crowded; crowdedness.

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1727.  P. Walker, Cameron, in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827), I. 276. When Prisons were more throng than ever, even in Dunnottar-Castle, where Eight-score and eight of us were driven into one Vault; and yet I never saw Throngness nor Irons marr any from writing.

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