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  • adverb In an etic manner.

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Examples

  • 'Then I'd rather, Mr Wegg, you put it another time, penn'orth-etically,' is Mr Venus's retort, 'for I tell you candidly I don't like your little cases.'

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

  • From my HIV work in Indonesia I’ve seen great uses of epidemiological modeling, but this is about behaviors understood etically—not about, say, the meanings attached to particular practices as “sexual” or not.

    Computational Social Science and the Problem With Hakkar’s Blood 2007

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