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单词 rhetorically
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rhetoricallyadv.

Brit. /rᵻˈtɒrᵻkli/, U.S. /rəˈtɔrək(ə)li/
Forms: late Middle English retorycally, 1500s rethorically, 1500s rhetorycallye, 1500s– rhetorically.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rhetorical adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < rhetorical adj. + -ly suffix2. Compare classical Latin rhētoricē , adverb. Compare rhetoricly adv.
1. In a rhetorical manner; with the use of rhetorical language; (in early use) spec. †eloquently, elegantly (obsolete).
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [adverb]
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adverb] > rhetorically
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1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 2009 Who in latyn haue luste to know þis ladyes praysynge retorycally Expressed, ten bookes..He muste seke, entytlyd sothly ‘Of þe weddynge dytees’.
1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe sig. Fiiij v My lorde hath rhetorycallye begonne hys proposycyon to wynne hys audytorye,..in callynge them good peple.
1577 W. Fulke Two Treat. against Papistes i. ii. 60 Eusebius Emissenus helpeth you as litle as Irenæus, for he speaketh rhetorically, of the glorious victory that Christ obtained against hel, & the power of darkenes.
1606 A. Wotton Def. M. Perkins Bk. v. 322 The reuerend Father rhetorically amplifies the point.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 135 Many others cannot be drawne into Argument as writing Poetically, Rhetorically, Enigmatically, Hieroglyphically. View more context for this quotation
1709 T. D'Urfey Mod. Prophets iii. i. 33 Your Lordship's strong Inclinations to possess what you like so well, tips your Tongue so Rhetorically on the sudden.
1788 J. Wesley Wks. (1811) IX. 110 I could..write..floridly and rhetorically.
1833 E. Burton Lect. Eccl. Hist. II. xxii. 229 Tertullian..perhaps speaks rhetorically, when he says, that the Gospel had penetrated into..countries, which had not as yet submitted to the Romans.
1860 J. Young Province Reason 171 Loosely, expletively, rhetorically, we speak of the Infinite Life.
1927 E. O'Neill Lazarus Laughed iv. 177 He laughs with a wild triumphant madness and again rhetorically.
1976 Nature 13 May 92/1 The choice between guns and butter was rhetorically offered by Goebbels to the German public.
2002 R. G. Mitchell Dancing at Armageddon iii. 98 Wives and children are often active practical participants but are rhetorically iconified into hapless dependents.
2. With reference to the theory, principles, and practice of rhetoric; in terms of rhetoric.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [adverb] > with reference to rhetoric
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1828 R. Whately Rhetoric 169 Some passions may be, Rhetorically speaking, opposite to each other, though in strictness they are not so.
1880 W. Swinton Stud. in Eng. Lit. (1886) iii. iii. 68 What kind of sentence grammatically and rhetorically?
1961 H. Lowe in C. C. Walcutt Tomorrow's Illiterates iv. 95 Rhetorically speaking, this is metonymy.
1992 M. Hawcroft Words as Action 248 The words can of course be analysed rhetorically, and such analysis highlights their exceptional nature.
3. In the manner of a rhetorical question.
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1828 H. D. Beale Italy as it Is xix. 403 Where is Baiae? I do not ask the question rhetorically, seated at my writing-table; I asked it then, upon the very spot.
1864 N. Brit. Rev. Feb. 148 He asks rhetorically where he shall commence, whether from the very first, the rape of Europa and the voyage of Cadmus; and concludes that such a starting place would be too far off.
1911 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 15 542 The question is introduced only rhetorically to show that the popular conception of the sacrifices is an erroneous one.
2000 T. Clancy Bear & Dragon vii. 108 ‘How many of those guardians of the state have gone bad?’ the St. Petersburg cop asked rhetorically.

Compounds

Modifying a past participle, as rhetorically formed, rhetorically driven.
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1851 G. V. Cox tr. C. Ullmann Gregory of Nazianzum App. ii. 310 This somewhat rhetorically-formed description of Gregory's may certainly have resulted from the subjective conception he had formed of them.
1904 B. Russell in Mind 13 522 We may imagine a rhetorically minded soldier in battle saying to himself: ‘To advance is to die, to retreat is dishonour; better death than dishonour.’
a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 210 By means of a conscious rhetorically- and demagogically-forced row with the Opposition I won back both their respect and my popularity among my own party.
1995 L. Nattrass William Cobbett 12 An understanding of his famously egoistic persona as a rhetorically-driven literary creation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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