rhetorically
/rɪˈtɒrɪkli
/adverb
1In terms of rhetoric or speech intended to impress or persuade: in the modern world, everyone rhetorically embraces democracy [sentence adverb]: we will continue to fight an uphill battle, rhetorically speaking, against extremists...
- The preface, to be sure, shows a perhaps rhetorically prudent ambivalence towards the use of humour in polemic.
- Knowledge rhetorically induced from a representative anecdote will ironically contain both of Ransom's two knowledges.
- Each of the elements he names demands a communicative, rhetorically performed reciprocity that today's electronic media make almost unthinkable.
2(With reference to a question) with the aim of producing an effect or making a statement rather than eliciting information: ‘Did you really think I would just go away?’ he asked rhetorically...
- He rhetorically asked, "What's next?"
- The professor rhetorically asked, "Does the redemptive-historical school regard his appeal to be 'atomistic' and moralistic?"
- "Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new truth to be discovered by a new majority tomorrow?" the future pope asked rhetorically in a 1996 interview.
- consistency
- consistent
- consistently
- consistorial
- consistory
- consistory court
- consociate
- consociation
- consociational
- consociationalism
- consolable
- consolation
- consolation goal
- consolation prize
- consolatory
- console
- consoler
- console table
- consolidate
- Consolidated Fund
- consolidation
- consolidation loan
- consolidator
- consolidatory
- consolingly