exilically

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

exilic +‎ -ally

Adverb[edit]

exilically (comparative more exilically, superlative most exilically)

  1. In an exilic manner.
    • 1895, William Lang Baxter, Sanctuary and Sacrifice: A Reply to Wellhausen, page 415:
      The argument implies that the recognised, and standing, name for the altar, throughout the Priestly Code, has become "the altar of burnt-offering," and that the use of this new name indicates how "the burnt-offering" had risen to prominence, post-Exilically.
    • 2001, Hamid Naficy, An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking[1]:
      However, not all postmodernist films are diasporically or exilically accented, while all accented films are to some extent postmodernist.