symbolically

English

Etymology

From symbolical +‎ -ly or symbolic +‎ -ally.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌsɪmˈbɒlɪklɪ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌsɪmˈbɑːlɪklɪ/

Adverb

symbolically (comparative more symbolically, superlative most symbolically)

  1. In a symbolic manner.
    • 2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN‎[1]:
      Haha, memes are funny! Until they totally become racist. Pepe the Frog lived a very normal meme life right up until online trolls turned him into a green thing of hate in 2016. It got so bad his creator symbolically killed him off in 2017.
  2. By means of symbols or a symbol.
  3. As symbols or a symbol.
    • 2003 Summer, Kristin Henrard, “Post-Apartheid South Africa: Transformation and Reconciliation”, in World Affairs, volume 166, number 1, page 37:
      In the end, the deadlock was resolved by a minor -- but for the National Party symbolically important -- addition to one of the other subsections of the language clause.

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