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  • adverb In a manner related to an Oedipus complex. Adverb form of oedipal.

Etymologies

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oedipal +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Then he oedipally cleared his adoptive dad's desk of its typewriter, powered up his laptop and finished the work of Broadbent's ex-campaigning journalist – writing the muckraking tale of institutional sex abuse with its shocking subplot of how he was fathered by a rapist orderly at a mental home.

    TV review: Exile and The Secret Millionaire 2011

  • Her shirt was open, revealing an appealing cleavage that spoke to me oedipally.

    Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004

  • When Penelope, clinging at age forty to a frayed strand of self-esteem, expressed a stubborn faith that "there was a man for her out there," Prozan intervened to convince her that the man in question was only her oedipally desired but long-dead father.

    'Victims of Memory': An Exchange Albert, Carol 1995

  • Most politicians, instinctively and oedipally, judge themselves against their illustrious forebears in this way.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2009

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