intrinsically
Etymology
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Etymology
From intrinsic + -ally.
Adverbintrinsically
- In an intrinsic manner; internally; essentially.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
- The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
- See also Thesaurus:intrinsically
- French: intrinsèquement
- German: wirklich, wesentlich, eigentlich
- Italian: intrinsecamente
- Portuguese: intrinsecamente
- Russian: по су́ти
- Spanish: intrínsecamente
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