Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an interfering manner; by interference; by intermeddling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb By or with interference.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb So as to interfere.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

interfering +‎ -ly

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word interferingly.

Examples

  • And I am sure that every good and upright person in that region, whether native or foreign missionary, would exceedingly regret to see a reckless set of religion-spurning, God-defying persons sent there -- especially by disinterested white societies in America, which interferingly came forward in a measure which was originated solely by ourselves (and that, too, but a few of us), as our only hope for the regeneration of our race from the curse and corrupting influences of our white American oppressors.

    Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.