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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

adoptedly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English adopted Middle English -ly English -ly English adoptedly From adopted + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) By adoption.
    • LUCIO: Is she your cousin? ISABELLA: Adoptedly, as schoolmaids change their names / By vain though apt affection. c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]: