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intellectually

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    From intellectual + -ly.

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    intellectually (comparative more intellectually, superlative most intellectually)

    1. In an intellectual manner.
      • 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 421:
        And just because the intellectuals are mostly intellectually honest it is inevitable that they should follow their own convictions whenever they have discretion and that they should give a corresponding slant to everything that passes through their hand.
      • 2002, Yanis Varoufakis, Foundations of Economics: A Beginner's Companion, page 25:
        Nevertheless intellectually, ideologically and politically he identified with industrialists whom he, just like Smith, saw as the usherers of progress.

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