quotationally

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English quotational

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English quotationally

From quotational + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kwə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃənəli/, /kwə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃnəli/, /kwə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃənli/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kwoʊˈteɪʃənəli/, /kwoʊˈteɪʃnəli/, /kwoʊˈteɪʃənli/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃənəli

Adverb

quotationally (not comparable)

1. As a quotation; by use of quotations.
   • 1922, The Sewanee Review:

     I have presented this matter thus quotationally because I am anxious to emphasize Conrad's understanding loyalty to his art...

   • 1994, Harold M Schulweis, For Those Who Can't Believe:

     So as not to appear disbelieving, they opted to respond quotationally, to offer literal citation of chapter and verse.

   • 1998, Eloise Knowlton, Joyce, Joyceans, and the Rhetoric of Citation:

     In my quotationally informed analysis, the ages of the poet and auctoritas are similarly premodern modes...