In a manner characterized by quick sword thrusts.
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'foining,' creating an adverb that describes how an action is performed. This is a rare formation reflecting archaic combat terminology.
This adverb is so obscure that it barely appears in historical texts, but it represents how English speakers could theoretically build adjective-adverb pairs for any combat move—a linguistic flexibility that fencing manuals actually exploited.
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