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animally

American  
[an-uh-muh-lee] / ˈæn ə mə li /

adverb

  1. physically.

Etymology

Origin of animally

First recorded in 1590–1600; animal + -ly

Example Sentences

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Furnished with neither combining intellect nor transmuting sensibility, they have no vision for aught but the proximate and immediate and the animally necessary.

From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)

I speak not only of those who are animally happy.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

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