Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • As a plural; in a sense implying more than one.

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

  • adverb In a plural manner or sense.

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

  • adverb In a plural manner or fashion.

Etymologies

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plural +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I want to be plurally married to Margine and Chloe Sevigny!

    Best of 2007, Part One of Four ~ Television « 1979 Semi-Finalist… 2008

  • In response, he made himself a diffuse, uncertain thing, a mass of contradictory, irresolvable voices that speak truth plurally.

    Speaking in Tongues Smith, Zadie 2009

  • Here F is not a placeholder in a schema, but a genuine variable ranging over properties or classes (or, on some interpretations, ranging plurally over individuals).

    Schema Corcoran, John 2008

  • Polygamy is still marriage, albiet plurally, and some people are willing to enter into these types of arrangements (unfortunately my wife will have none of it).

    Paul Jenkins: The Last Time We Vote For Bigotry 2008

  • The latter had only one side, and therefore — plurally and pedantically speaking — NO SIDES.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • Representative Castle was circulating talking points about a measure that the House ended up killing that would have provided for research into promising areas that would give us access to what he wants, which are plurally potent cells.

    CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2006 2006

  • "Archives" is originally and most standardly only feminine plural in French source: Petit Robert, and the equivalent typically occurs plurally in Latin, it seems.

    languagehat.com: ARCHIVE(S). 2005

  • What is the dictum on teams that do not end plurally?

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • What is the dictum on teams that do not end plurally?

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • What is the dictum on teams that do not end plurally?

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

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