Definitions
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- adverb In an
alienable way.
Etymologies
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alienable + -ly
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Examples
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And the joy was that it was all mine alienably -- groomed hedgerow, spotless road, decent greystone cottage, serried spinney, tasselled copse, apple-bellied hawthorn, and well-grown tree.
The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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It must always be a woman who whitens the steps; if a man-servant were to do it any such dreadful thing might happen as would follow his blacking the boots, which is alienably a female function.
London Films William Dean Howells 1878
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