Might mean (unverified): Holding or owning something tightly.
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  1. possessingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. possessingly: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (possessingly)

▸ adverb:  in a possessing manner

Similar:
possessively, prepossessingly, possessedly, prepossessedly, self-possessedly, dispossessively, unprepossessedly, graspingly, captivatingly, bewitchingly, more...

Opposite:
unpossessively, non-possessively, dispossessively

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Similar:
possessively, prepossessingly, possessedly, prepossessedly, self-possessedly, dispossessively, unprepossessedly, graspingly, captivatingly, bewitchingly, more...

Opposite:
unpossessively, non-possessively, dispossessively



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