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imaginarily

adv · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adv

Meaning 1

In an imaginary way, in the imagination.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 1724, Aaron Hill and William Bond, The Plain Dealer No. 40, 7 August, 1724, Volume 1, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, 1730, p. 335, The Father (if all our Family guesses right, and much I fear we do) will be inraged at the Loss of an Estate, in which he had imaginarily placed the whole Sum of his Son’s Felicity in this World;

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adv

Meaning 2

By way of an image.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable, obsolete

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History

Etymology

From imaginary + -ly.