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trippingly

Shakespearean Definition:

Adverb - in a tripping manner

Frequency: 2

Here are all of the speeches where trippingly shows up across the corpus:

A Midsummer Night's Dream


Through the house give glimmering light ,
By the dead and drowsy fire .
Every elf and fairy sprite ,
Hop as light as bird from brier ,
And this ditty after me ,
Sing and dance it trippingly .

Hamlet

Speak the speech , I pray you , as I pronounced
it to you , trippingly on the tongue ; but if you mouth
it , as many of our players do , I had as lief the
town-crier spoke my lines . Nor do not saw the air
too much with your hand , thus , but use all gently ;
for in the very torrent , tempest , and , as I may say ,
whirlwind of your passion , you must acquire and
beget a temperance that may give it smoothness . O ,
it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious ,
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters , to very
rags , to split the ears of the groundlings , who for the
most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable
dumb shows and noise . I would have such a fellow
whipped for o’erdoing Termagant . It out-Herods
Herod . Pray you , avoid it .