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unetymologically

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  • adverb In a way which is not etymological.

Etymologies

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unetymological +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • An out and out free thinker might even wonder: if a Romance language such as French, regulated as it is by a fearsomely conservative Academy of scholars, can fix the spelling in French as , , , , very conveniently but quite unetymologically, why cannot it be done for English?

    another meaning for PR mj 2009

  • An out and out free thinker might even wonder: if a Romance language such as French, regulated as it is by a fearsomely conservative Academy of scholars, can fix the spelling in French as , , , , very conveniently but quite unetymologically, why cannot it be done for English?

    Looking askance at "-ence" and "-ance" mj 2009

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