Biblically

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Adverb[edit]

Biblically (comparative more Biblically, superlative most Biblically)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of biblically.
    • 1915, T[heophilus] N[icholas] Kelynack, Defective Children, London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., [], page 253:
      He is now in practice, and must be past the midway point of the Biblically allotted span of man’s life.
    • 1990 December 17, Kenneth L. Woodward, Jeanne Gordon, Nonny de la Pena, Patricia King, Marc Peyser, Michael Mason, Nadine Joseph, Deborah Rosenberg, Roxie Hammill, “Shopping for a Church: With babes in arms and doubts in mind, young Americans return to God”, in Newsweek, volume CXVI, number 25, page 47:
      “We’re a Biblically illiterate community,” acknowledges the Rev. Randall Updegraff Spleth, the 34-year-old pastor of booming Geist Disciples of Christ Church in Indiana.
    • 1998 fall, Vicki Lindner, “To Cole Cole”, in Lorrie Moore, editor, Ploughshares: Fiction Issue, volume 24, number 2/3, →ISBN, page 97:
      Freyda had cursed her then, with a hatred so venomous, so long-stifled, so Biblically intense that she had immediately repressed the exact words her friend said.
    • 2011, Sandra Leigh Savage, Love Letters, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 47:
      It [the number 17] has importance in both of the math realm and Biblically.