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cardinally, adv.|ˈkɑːdɪnəlɪ|
[f. cardinal a. + -ly2.]
Fundamentally, pre-eminently.
1866P. G. Medd in Ch. & World 348 That cardinally important subject. 1874Morley Compromise (1886) 36 Our own [age] is characteristically and cardinally an epoch of transition.
¶ Humorous perversion of carnally (cf. cardinal sins).
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. i. 81 My wife, who, if she had bin a woman Cardinally giuen, might haue bin accus'd in fornication. |