surrogately

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

surrogate +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

surrogately (not comparable)

  1. By means of a substitute; by proxy.
    • 2014, Mary N. Layoun, Travels of a Genre: The Modern Novel and Ideology‎[1]:
      Again the precepts of some extrafamilial or surrogately paternal relationship are violated. For to speak his secret means death for the sensei.

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