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transliterally en · ADV

Etymology

From transliteral + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) In a transliteral (more than literal, beyond literal) way; more than literally.
    • An ironic utterance may be successful at the locutionary level if it is properly understood transliterally, but fails at the perlocutionary level if the conversational reaction does not respect the 'literal complicity' of the ironic game. 2001, Edda Weigand, Marcelo Dascal, Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, →ISBN, page 143:
  2. (not-comparable, rare) In a way that exhibits simple transliteration; in a transliteral (transliterating) way; (that is,) being (or having been) transliterated.
    • “Taneic ," "Sabaneeff" and others preferred to be spelled abroad this way, rather than transliterally Tanyeyev or Sabanyeyev. 1996, Faubion Bowers, Scriabin, a Biography, →ISBN, page 7:
    • Likewise, ποιητικῆς^([sic]) [transliterally poetikes] is not an untranslatable term. 2008, A Feminist Rhetorical Translating of the "Rhetoric", →ISBN, page 61:

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