interiorly
Americanadverb
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in one's inner being, mind, or soul; spiritually, inwardly.
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in the interior or inland regions of a country.
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with respect to the inside of something, such as a building, car, etc.
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with respect to the domestic affairs of a country.
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Sports. in a way that pertains to interior positions, such as interior linemen in football or the interior channels in soccer.
Example Sentences
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“Tony is singing so deeply and interiorly — it’s almost in a private place, yet he has the courage to completely share,” Mr. Charlap said.
From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2016
“The huge expanses of marshes that occur interiorly to the shoreline have been spared,” said Irving A. Mendelssohn, a professor of oceanography and coastal plant ecology at Louisiana State University.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2010
But on the other hand, "the Church will rediscover her renewed youthfulness not so much by changing her exterior laws as by interiorly assimilating her true spirit of obedience to Christ."
From Time Magazine Archive
You will then be connected interiorly and by correspondence with the blind, deaf, dumb, paralytic or dead, in the natural world.
From In Both Worlds by Holcombe, William Henry
The layer consisting of the proper stones of the arch of the cell interiorly; 2.
From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by Stuart, John
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