proteanly

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English

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Etymology

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From protean +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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proteanly (comparative more proteanly, superlative most proteanly)

  1. In a protean manner.
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: [] Richard Royston, [], →OCLC:
      Which matter of the universe is always substantially the same , and neither more nor less , but only Proteanly transformed into different shapes

References

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proteanly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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