literarily

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• "A novel by its very name suggests entertainment and is a strong factor for readers of longer fiction, but a short-fiction reader looks at sentence structure, metaphors, and matters that please the university-trained and literarily inclined reader.

  Academic text (2009)

• The past two decades have raised Arab Americans to a higher level of self-affirmation (expressed organizationally, literarily, and religiously) within their own circles and to a higher level of prominence outside them.

  Academic text (1993)

• I prefer a good edition, physically as well as literarily speaking, to a bad one.

  Blog text (9)

• We can look at this question both ideologically, as Gage does, and literarily.

  Blog text (31)

• The quotation is certainly a literarily evocative and perhaps largely accurate description of the state of contemporary historical writing.

  Academic text (1993)

• In contrast to literarily informed stories in which characters are represented in a more static and simplistic way, told stories present persons and events with greater degrees of complexity and sophisticated symbolism.

  Academic text (1997)

• This is the transference of a literarily based method—a way of thinking—from literature to visual art: a method of systematization of knowledge in one and a method of analysis of knowledge in the other.

  Academic text (2011)

• (By the way, for the benefit of the literarily deprived, the title's a pun on King of the Khyber Rifles, which I confess to having read only in the Classics Illustrated Comics form.)

  Fiction book (1997)

• Literarily, while God acknowledges her humility, God also dismantles any authorizing program restricted by the learned-unlearned dichotomy by saying, "One finds many a professor learned in scripture who actually is a fool in my eyes."

  Academic text (2007)

• The mode employed by the magisterium when eliciting evidence from the Gospels is literarily, exegetically, and historically flawed and thus cannot represent a universally valid norm.

  Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

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poetically

vsliterarily

• Literature

5 5.3

Using beautiful words to create strong pictures in the mind

is broader, applying to writing style across books and genres

How Literary

literarily

• Literature

1 7.9

poetically

• Literature

5 5.3

artistically

20 3.9

informally

12 3.4

colloquially

5 7.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology