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unimitatively

adv · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adv

Meaning 1

In an unimitative manner, not imitating something else.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 1898, Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, Introduction to The Complete Works of Robert Browning, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Volume 3, p. xix, This tremendous scene [...] is, in some respects of stage action, a counterpart of the awful scene between Lady Macbeth and the Thane of Cawdor after Duncan’s murder. Yet how thoroughly and unimitatively is it reconstructed on opposite lines by the most original English pupil of the great Elizabethan wizard!
  • 1961, Kenneth A. Telford (translator), Aristotle’s Poetics: Translation and Analysis, Chicago: Henry Regnery, Section 25, p. 50, [...] it is less of a mistake not to know that a female deer has no horns than to paint unimitatively.

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History

Etymology

From unimitative + -ly.