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linˈguistically, adv. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In regard or relation to language or linguistics.
1860Marsh Eng. Lang. xxii. 473 It is also linguistically important because [etc.]. 1865Max Müller Chips (1880) II. xxv. 267 The similarity of customs..among races linguistically related to each other. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 130 Gawain Douglas, whose translation of the æneid is linguistically valuable. 1921B. Russell Analysis of Mind viii. 141 The subject..is introduced, not because observation reveals it, but because it is linguistically convenient and apparently demanded by grammar. 1935B. Malinowski Coral Gardens II. vi. iv. 229 The magical word..has got some affinity with the name which linguistically defines the relation of man as speaker to the object addressed. 1942Language XVIII. 7 Non-distinctive elements..are no more significant linguistically than is any other concurrent action of a speaker. 1956E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics ii. 26 Truth is said to be linguistically neutral: whatever is true is true in any language. 1971W. P. Robinson in W. H. Whiteley Lang. Use & Social Change 78 Linguistically, the code has the possibility of exploiting the full grammatical and lexical potential of the language. |