hermeneutically
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9.9
- adverb
- /ˌhɜːrməˈnjuːtɪkli/
- Formal
- Writing about these two experiences phenomenologically and working with the texts hermeneutically revealed their connection.
Examples
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It is, however, in Erikson's "hermeneutically informed and situated account of an ego identity" (11) that Wallulis finds the richest mode of "dynamic balance" which constitutes the human self.
Academic text (1993) -
Thus, the speaker is exiled in manifold ways: physically, religiously, and hermeneutically.
Academic text (2010) -
Hermeneutically, these axes of deceit, honesty, and violence, cooperation link these poles so that we can judge one in the light of the other.
Academic text (2000) -
Bhaskar is not "illiterate" in the normal sense (unlike some of his followers), but he is what could be called hermeneutically and diachronically illiterate.
Blog text (9) -
Feminine and masculine embodiment are both poetically and hermeneutically distinct, as each human form connotes a number of culturally gendered concepts.
Academic text (2004) -
Although such subjects have always captured the attention of Romanian critics, until the late eighties, they inhabited a kind of abstract, hermeneutically undetermined no man's land.
Academic text (1995) -
He argues here also that theology always has been, from beginning to end, interpretation, but that the revised method of correlation is "in fact nothing other than a hermeneutically self-conscious clarification and correction of traditional theology."
Academic text (1993) -
The paratactic style at the level of language in the story again seems to signal (and predict) the severing of these connective signposts, whether at the level of the storyline or, hermeneutically speaking, at the level of allegory.
Academic text (2016) -
The professor explained the text hermeneutically, helping students grasp its deeper meanings.
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To understand the poem's themes, we must analyze it hermeneutically, considering its historical context.
Synonyms
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7.0
In a way that explains meaning using personal ideas
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7.7
In a way that explains what something means
Surface Forms
Morphology
hermeneutically = hermeneutic (transparent) = hermeneutic + ally
Formed by standard adverbial derivation from the adjective 'hermeneutic' (via -ally), so the meaning 'in an interpretive manner' is directly derived.
Etymology
The word hermeneutically comes from the root hermeneut-, linked to the name Hermes, the Greek messenger who 'explains' or 'translates' messages. So, to study a text hermeneutically is to study it in a way that 'interprets' the text and finds its meaning.