nationallyadv.
/ˈnaʃn̩əli/, /ˈnaʃn̩l̩i/, /ˈnaʃənl̩i/, /ˈnaʃ(ə)nəli/, U.S. /ˈnæʃ(ə)nəli/ In a national manner; as a nation; with regard to the nation as a whole.
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the world > people > nations > [adverb] > national
of (also by) nationa1387
publicly1564
nationally1647
vernacularly1839
1647 S. Hartlib Considerations Englands Reformation 3 God hath bound Us to himself before other people Nationally.
1681 Whole Duty of Nations 21 That they should have Nationally dedicated themselves to the true Jehovah.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 72 Take them nationally or personally..they will behave well.
1791 W. Maxwell in J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1770 I. 340 He considered the Scotch, nationally, as a crafty, designing people.
1822 New Monthly Mag. 4 17 The nationally-charged arrogance of self-opinion.
1870 R. Anderson Hist. Missions Amer. Board II. xxi. 169 Whether the people of the Sandwich Islands might be represented as nationally Christianized.
1901 Atlantic Monthly May 700/1 Why do these poets of the older school fail to fulfill the a priori conception of our nationally characteristic poetry?
1966 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 22 Jan. 14/3 We..hope the idea may catch on nationally.
1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 384/1 This strange and rather sinister aquatic is now a nationally scarce plant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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