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Etymology
Etymology tree English tmetic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English tmetically From tmetic + -ally.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In a tmetic way; through tmesis.
Here a phrase is perceived as being tmetically cleaved only in retrospect[…]
1971, Alfred Appel, Charles Newman, Nabokov: criticism, reminiscences, translations, and tributes: