Definitions
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- adverb In an
inaugural way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb so as to inaugurate
Etymologies
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inaugural + -ly
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Examples
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Last week they chose an inaugurally-slow Thursday to stage an extremely public act of charity (are there any other kind these days?) just blocks from the White House.
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Metaphor, as the paternal signifier, inaugurally splits the human subject between undifferentiated biological being and self-identification in language, furnishing identity at the expense of the real.
Reading Machines 2005
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