adoxographically

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English

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Etymology

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From adoxographic +‎ -ally.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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adoxographically (not comparable)

  1. (rhetoric) In an adoxographic manner.
    • 2007, John [Graham Wilmot] Henderson, The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville: Truth from Words, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 152–153:
      But, paradoxically (even adoxographically), it is the venomous snake, for us death warmed up, that triggers the editorial moral []
    • 2008, T. Ross Leasure, “Spenser's Diabolical Orator and Milton's 'Man of Hell'”, in Christophe Tournu, editor, Milton in France, Bern: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 175:
      Redcrosse's "term" has expired; the drum has sounded, claims the ghoul, as the latter embarks upon the second and final round of anthypophoratic and anacoenotic assault, the first question of which adoxographically transmutes the []
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