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unobviously en · ADV

Etymology

From unobvious + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a way that is not obvious.
    • I took a firm grip of Josella's hand, and we started to worm our way along as unobviously as possible. 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 80:
    • As I have already indicated, however, there is reason to think that at least some of the principles that Kant takes to be synthetic a priori are instead unobviously analytic, and so I shall assume that if Kant shows that a principle associated with one of his categories is unobviously analytic, that too shows that the category is objectively valid. 2004, Georges Dicker, Kant's Theory of Knowledge: An Analytical Introduction, page 49:

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