Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner or with the force or character of an adverb; as an adverb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In the manner of an adverb.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb As, or in the manner of, an
adverb .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb as an adverb
Etymologies
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Examples
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Given this account of the intentionality of perception, sensations are best understood adverbially, that is, as a way of perceiving objects in the world.
Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God Nolan, Lawrence 2008
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And because good has taken on this colloquial resonance when used adverbially, it has made some people sensitive about its use.
On looking well DC 2010
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And because good has taken on this colloquial resonance when used adverbially, it has made some people sensitive about its use.
Archive 2010-08-01 DC 2010
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All I can do is describe how Guinness affects me neurologically, intellectually, spiritually, sexually, violently, adverbially — every year a new edition comes out.
Walter Kirn Mourns : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2007
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In sensibility the qualities of perceived things turn into time and into consciousness ¦ [But,] do not the sensations in which the sensible qualities are lived resound adverbially ¦ as adverbs of the verb to be?
Emmanuel Levinas Bergo, Bettina 2007
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The key word was sorry, later adverbially emphasized as very sorry.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The key word was sorry, later adverbially emphasized as very sorry.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Not: He was absent due to illness, which uses due to adverbially.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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Not: He was absent due to illness, which uses due to adverbially.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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Wherefore the word X+S+D+, following may be taken adverbially, as a lenitive of that severity which this word importeth: "Let him smite me;" but
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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