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单词 nepotically
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nepoticallyadv.

Brit. /nᵻˈpɒtᵻkli/, /nɛˈpɒtᵻkli/, U.S. /nəˈpɑdəkli/, /nɛˈpɑdəkli/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin nepōt- , nepōs , -ically suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin nepōt-, nepōs (see nephew n.) + -ically suffix. In sense 2 after nepotism n., nepotic adj.
1. In a manner characteristic of a nephew. Obsolete. rare.
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1815 Ld. Byron Let. 2 Feb. (1975) IV. 262 They have made me so sleepy that I must (say) Goodnight ever yours most nepotically B.
?1895 H. James Let. 30 Jan. in Bravest of Women (1999) 31 I blush to the roots of my hair, my dear Aunt, at my delay in returning you the lovely tale... Yours ever nepotically Henry James.
2. In a manner characterized by or suggestive of nepotism.
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1835 Lancet 27 June 414/1 They give them politically, and they tell us, that we sell them for private advantage... Suppose, however, a concours were to act neither politically nor nepotically, [etc.].
1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 6 July 8/1 Appointments to office should be permissable only after seven years' residence... Neither a Governor-General nor a Minister can well patronize nepotically against such a limitation.
1893 tr. O. Uzanne Book-hunter in Paris (1895) vi. 126 In this portrait which a poet has traced nepotically in his Rimes Bouquinières will be recognised Bibliophile Jacob.
1953 K. Tynan Let. 8 July (1994) iii. 196 What..moved me to send it was the astounding news of your supporting the idea that the greedy, monopolistic adventurers of the B.B.C...should nepotically control all the available wave-bands.
1961 H. Calisher False Entry ii. iv. 103 The long envelope was given me to leave at the Fourchettes' office [sc. an attorney's office], a small wooden annex attached nepotically to one wall of the courthouse itself.
2006 J. Axtell Making of Princeton Univ. vi. 330 Theological conservative George Patton, the former president's nepotically appointed son.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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