biographically
- adverb
- /ˌbaɪəˈɡræfɪkli/
- The age of the individual is his personal, autobiographical time, standardized biographically in terms of the regulation of cultural duration and other features.
Examples
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Many men of the era, pardoned or not, have biographically rich files in the indexed National Archives microfilm M650, Letters of Application and Recommendation.
Academic text (2009) -
I couldn't help thinking of how he'd dismissed such negative aspects in his essays defending the PSD, and had insisted it wouldn't necessarily make history more biographically determined than it already was.
Fiction book (1995) -
The absence of any information about the "private" lives of these two women has left "biographically-bound" critics bereft of any material upon which to build a coherent image.
Academic text (1999) -
They refer to a history of modern sculpture biographically, of course: those coherent forms belong to someone else, to Brancusi or Duchamp.
Academic text (2002) -
In the terms of the novel's reference, as we have seen, the subject is "subject... only for the biographically unique constellation of designations and realizations that binary schematisms have held open."
Academic text (2016) -
The novel is often read biographically, as a sign—it was written during her engagement to Leonard Woolf—of the lengths she would go to avoid intimacy:
Academic text (1998) -
Both attitudes, serious and playful, articulative and disruptive, are justified biographically: "My life began in incoherence and discontinuity, and my work has undoubtedly been marked by this."
Academic text (1994) -
If Frost at times encouraged biographical misreading (to biographer Robert Newdick, and perhaps to Pound as well), he also resented Pound's effort to biographically determine his style and content.
Academic text (2016) -
A subject's adoption of and/or refusal to articulate certain place-names in a specific language can also be seen as an action to help alleviate the insult and injury of their past and current situations and, at the same time, to remind themselves of their biographically specific history (Agha 2005).
Academic text (2007) -
Biographically, he's been around show business since 1999, getting his start with a small part in Sex and the City.
How Biographical
Surface Forms
Morphology
biographically = biographical (transparent) = biography + ical + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'biographical', yielding a manner adverb.
Etymology
Biographically comes from bio- meaning 'life' and -graphy meaning 'writing', like in biology, which means 'study of life', and autobiography, when a person writes their own life. So, to do something biographically is to show or tell a person's life story.