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polysemically en · ADV

Etymology

From polysemic + -ally.

Meanings

  1. In a polysemic manner; with multiple meanings.
    • Even though some names or words polysemically carry sexual meanings, this does not automatically mean that every usage of them in literary texts, even those of a pornographic nature, has a sexual meaning, either explicitly or punningly. 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 113:

Forms

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more polysemically Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most polysemically Degree=Sup lexicographic

Translations (1)

pt polissemicamente (in a polysemic manner)