adverbially
Americanadverb
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This style may suit new motherhood, a time when everything feels, in Galchen’s words, “ludicrously, suspiciously, adverbially sodden with meaning”—but also, it just reads cool.
From Slate • May 4, 2016
His verbs get goosed, too, adverbially: remarkably, dramatically.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2011
But it can stand adverbially by itself=out of love for Allah, for Allah's sake.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Sure, used adverbially: comp. line 493, and ‘certain,’ l.
From Milton's Comus by Bell, William
This word, among others, he has preserved; and he makes use of it adverbially in its proper sense, when he describes any body superlatively great, and excellent.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Bryant, Jacob
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