Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Otherwise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb See otherwise.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Otherwise; by another means; differently; in other respects; contrarily.
  • adverb Scotland, obsolete In a similar or comparable way; similarly.

Etymologies

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From other +‎ ways.

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Examples

  • This financial burden would expected to spill over and detract from quality of life in otherways.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » House Democratic Leaders Drop “Deem and Pass” 2010

  • Assassination attempts on key politicians and other efforts to target the government (cf. this story) might also be undertaken to try to destabilize the government in otherways.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Al Qaeda’s Next Move: 2004

  • “Having had several vessels taken from me & otherways lost a great deal of property in this war,” he told Bingham, “I conceive myself perfectly justifiable in the Eyes of God & Man to seek what I have lost from those that have plundered me.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • The town of Danvers Essex County “Voted not to give their Delagates any Instructions and left it with them, to assent to, and Ratify the same or otherways, as they think most Adviseable.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • The town of Danvers Essex County “Voted not to give their Delagates any Instructions and left it with them, to assent to, and Ratify the same or otherways, as they think most Adviseable.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • The town of Danvers Essex County “Voted not to give their Delagates any Instructions and left it with them, to assent to, and Ratify the same or otherways, as they think most Adviseable.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • “Having had several vessels taken from me & otherways lost a great deal of property in this war,” he told Bingham, “I conceive myself perfectly justifiable in the Eyes of God & Man to seek what I have lost from those that have plundered me.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • This financial burden would expected to spill over and detract from quality of life in otherways.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » House Democratic Leaders Drop “Deem and Pass” 2010

  • And there are otherways to say Blitzkrieg -- one can even translate it as lightning attack.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • I think clearly some of these people who want McDonald to win without overturning Slaughterhouse are not really interested in securing the right to arms, . . . so much as they are interested in constraining civil rights in otherways.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Commentary on the Briefing in McDonald v. City of Chicago 2009

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