comparably
English
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From comparable + -ly.
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Adverb
comparably (comparative more comparably, superlative most comparably)
- In a comparable manner; by comparison.
- 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
- With respect to fleetness, which depends on many bodily characters, Eclipse was far fleeter, and a dray-horse is comparably stronger, than any two natural species belonging to the same genus.
- 1868, John Carey Cremony, Life among the Apaches:
- It may be entered up as an invariable rule, that the visits of Apaches to American camps are always for sinister purposes. They have nothing to trade for: consequently, it is not barter that brings them. They beg, but in no wise comparably with other Indian tribes; and scarcely expect to receive when they ask.
- 1909, Arthur Stringer, The Gun-Runner: A Novel:
- The heat, too, was oppressive, for not a breath of air seemed to stir in the quiet ship. But in comparably more oppressive was the silence so rhythmically broken by the spectral tread of the pacing sentries.
- 2011, H[enk] S. Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 173), Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 96:
- The Athenians, for their part, decided to adopt this god as a κηδεστής, “a relative/son in law.” Comparably, one of the two Dionysoi in the city of Heraea in Arcadia was called polites. Gods as honorary citizens and owners of land and house, that is the ultimate expression of local inclusion in the world of ‘ours’—a “naturalization” in the words of Detienne.