Definition of "improvingly" [improvingly]

• In a manner that tends to improve (especially, (dated), to educate or morally better a person). (adverb)

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• "Yet there he sat, strewing himself with snuff to keep himself awake, blinking with dim eyes at her, wondering for ever at her inscrutable nature, conversing improvingly upon his cases in the courts, or upon his growing fortune that he computed nightly like a miser."
• "She decides to take a small walk however -- small because she simply must get to bed before Mrs. Winters comes back and starts talking at her improvingly."
• "The ledger might have been notes that she was dutifully and improvingly taking."