interiorly

American  

[in-teer-ee-er-lee] / ɪnˈtɪər i ər li /

adverb

1. in one's inner being, mind, or soul; spiritually, inwardly.

2. in the interior or inland regions of a country.

3. with respect to the inside of something, such as a building, car, etc.

4. with respect to the domestic affairs of a country.

5. Sports. in a way that pertains to interior positions, such as interior linemen in football or the interior channels in soccer.

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Example Sentences

“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

There are, for instance, two terminal wing feathers in each wing; the appendages to the shoulder exist in both, and the lateral spurs, exteriorly and interiorly, are represented with slight modifications.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

Her voice no longer rang with the same assurance; there was something humble and furtive in her demeanor; she felt herself interiorly fallen.

From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Gautier, Th?ophile