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residually

residually

1 7.5
In a small way that stays after the main thing is gone
  • adverb
  • /rɪˈzɪdʒuəli/
: residualmente
  • It pours whole languages into you that are never spoken, but are stored and residually inform all you do and think from that moment on.
  • residually oral culture

Examples

  • In Fuenteovejuna, Lope reveals an awareness of how orality and textuality encounter one another in traditional societies and in residually oral communities.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Literate yet residually oral culture was able to stabilize in written form the flexible performance-based "oral texts" of nonliterate culture.

    Academic text (1992)
  • These changes of mind are residually present in this text.

  • You put yourself into it and you become the character and, you know, the character gets all crazy, residually you get crazy yourself.

  • Tampere remained residually red enough to house the world's only Lenin Museum.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • In a dialogue between them early in Act Two, Lope calls attention to the differences between residually oral communities and more typographic ones.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The very nature of sound itself helped to maintain the ties that bound the residually oral literate culture to that of the oral/aural world.

    Academic text (1992)
  • In this regard, Leonelo's reservations about typography are comparable to Plato's complaints about chirography, the only script known in residually oral ancient Greece.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Curators may be guardians of the second best, but when we have lost the living to human malfeasance, what can be more residually noble than faithful preservation and accurate documentation of often pitiable fragments?

    Academic text (1994)
  • The artist used residually vibrant colors to give depth to her painting even after applying a dull finish.

Surface Forms

residually positive

Morphology

residually = residual (transparent) = residual + ly

Formed regularly by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'residual', yielding the expected adverbial meaning.

Etymology

Residually comes from the same root as residue, which means 'what is left', and is related to reside, which means 'to stay'. So residually describes something that stays or 'remains' after the main part is gone.