togetherwise

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From together +‎ -wise.

Adverb[edit]

togetherwise (comparative more togetherwise, superlative most togetherwise)

  1. (rare, nonstandard) In a manner involving or depicting togetherness, togetherly.
    • 1971, original 1646, Sir John Suckling, Thomas Clayton, Lester A. Beaurline, The Works of Sir John Suckling, page 131:
      [] & besides necessity & an impossibility of liuing togetherwise allwayes attending it wth, & to thanke heauen for it you cannot pleade.
    • 1958, Parliamentary Debates, page 641:
      First, it makes practical efforts to help people who have to buy their houses because, togetherwise, they cannot get anywhere to live and have not enough money to pay the deposit formerly required, and it makes a practical effort to help them []
    • 2014, Alfred Colo, Candlewood Chronicles, page ?:
      Ho, ho! It feels like Christmas,
      not only weather-wise
      but in spirit;
      it feels together-wise.