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malapropistically en · ADV

Etymology

From malapropistic + -ally.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, usually) In a malapropistic way.
   • exhibition / (A) This word has two meanings: a financial allowance or endowment (a term still current in some British universities) and a gift or present. It is also used once malapropistically by Verges to Dogberry mistaking the word for 'commission' (ADO 4.2.5). 2015, Vivian Thomas, Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language: A Dictionary, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, retrieved 02 May 2023:
   • Subterranean descent can land in an underworld, be it Hell or Elysium or the other side of the earth, the Antipodes, which Alice malapropistically calls "the Antipathies"—not so exact an opposite to our side as the Looking-Glass Country, but a topsy-turvydom of sorts like Butler's Erewhon. 1994, Harold Bloom, Classic Fantasy Writers, Chelsea House, →ISBN, retrieved 02 May 2023, page 45:
   • The crowd slips from chanting "No Popery," to, malapropistically, "No Property," then Grip the Raven begins chanting "No Popery," and Barnaby Rudge the idiot takes up the cause, as if to say ideology can be easily parroted and is, for all its public claims, idiotic. 2019, Nicholas Birns, The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space, Lexington Books, →ISBN, retrieved 02 May 2023, page 178:

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