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Napoleonically en · ADV

Etymology

From Napoleonic + -ally.

Meanings

1. In a Napoleonic manner.
   • His expression aloof, almost haughty, the fingers of his plastered right arm tucked Napoleonically in his shirt, he sat upright in the front seat […] 2003, Lionel Shriver, “We Need to Talk About Kevin”, in Counterpoint, New York, page 198:
   • As the three generals met, Campbell’s soldiers raised a cheer, and Havelock, at the moment of his glory, greeted them Napoleonically. 1973, Jan Morris, chapter 11, in Heaven’s Command, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1980, page 241:
   • Arrested with his hand in his breast pocket Napoleonically, he imbibed his slow, steady nourishment. 1963, Edward Lewis Wallant, chapter 4, in The Tenants of Moonbloom, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 47:
   • his hands being duly folded Napoleonically behind his back 1857, “The Great Mr Wickham”, in Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts, volume 7, page 310:

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