intrinsically
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]intrinsically (comparative more intrinsically, superlative most intrinsically)
- In an intrinsic manner; internally; essentially.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
- 2021 September 25, Charles Hugh Smith, Are We Really So "Rich"? A New Way of Defining Wealth[1]:
- What cannot be commoditized because it is intrinsically inaccessible to commodification?
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Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]in an intrinsic manner, internally, essentially
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References
[edit]- “intrinsically”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “intrinsically”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.