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innovatorily en · ADV

Etymology

From innovatory + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an innovatory manner.
   • Most innovatorily, the Church has found itself possessed of a monopoly in religious belief unparalleled in previous Polish history. 1981, Norman Davies, “Kościół: The Roman Catholic Church in Poland”, in God’s Playground: A History of Poland […], volume II (1795 to the Present), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, part I (Poland Destroyed and Reconstructed, 1795–1945), page 224:
   • Deliberately and innovatorily international in outlook and personnel, central in the policies of the reforming papal Curia came the understanding that the church of Rome was synonymous with the universal church; […] 2006, Christopher Tyerman, “Introduction: Europe and the Mediterranean”, in God’s War: A New History of the Crusades, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 6:
   • The data in Table 4.20 show, in column 1, items with ‘etymological’ syllable initial [h] which rarely if ever undergo [h] effacement in Machyn; under column 2 we have lexical items for which the diarist regularly shows syllable initial [h] suppression and under column 3 items in the diary where [h] appears innovatorily inserted. 1989, Charles Jones, “[h] ‘dropping’ and insertion”, in A History of English Phonology (Longman Linguistics Library), London; New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, chapter 4 (The sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries), section 5 (Syllable shapes and their phonetic consequences), page 271:

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