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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

surrogately en · ADV

Etymology

From surrogate + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) By means of a substitute; by proxy.
    • Again the precepts of some extrafamilial or surrogately paternal relationship are violated. For to speak his secret means death for the sensei. 2014, Mary N. Layoun, Travels of a Genre: The Modern Novel and Ideology:

Synonyms

vicariously