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existentially en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English existential Middle English -ly English -ly English existentially From existential + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an existential manner.
   • In this case though, anachoresis, departure from the world into the desert originally in Egypt and Palestine and later throughout Christendom, was a form of protest against the world, an expression of a radical craving of living in a more existentially authentic way the Christian spiritual values. 2012, A. Green, V. Viaene, Religious Internationals in the Modern World, →ISBN:
   • Although I might have experienced being existentially out of place, the systems at work in my life have never sought to unhome me. 2023, Helene Grøn, Asylum and Belonging through Collective Playwriting, page x:

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