gibingly

English

Etymology

Adverb

gibingly (comparative more gibingly, superlative most gibingly)

With gibes; scornfully.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
  […] but your loves,
  Thinking upon his services, took from you
  The apprehension of his present portance,
  Which most gibingly, ungravely, he did fashion
  After the inveterate hate he bears you.
- 1904, Rafael Sabatini, The Tavern Knight, Chapter 25,
  “You little fool!” he said half-angrily, half-gibingly; and thereafter they rode in silence - she too mortified with shame and anger to venture upon words.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gibingly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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