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Definition of Metonymically
1. Adverb. In a metonymic manner.
Definition of Metonymically
1. Adverb. In a metonymic fashion; using metonymy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metonymically
Literary usage of Metonymically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Early Baptists: From the "beginning of the Gospel" to the by William Cocil Duncan (1857)
"... and a Symbol of the Moral Purification of its Recipient—The Outward Rite Spoken
of, metonymically, as though an Agent in the Remission of Sins—The New ..."
2. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"Wherever the word means to examine to approbation, it is not used in its natural
sense, but metonymically." Whereas, there is not the least foundation for ..."
3. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"Wherever the word means to examine to approbation, it is not used in its natural
sense, but metonymically." Whereas, there is not the least foundation for ..."
4. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... says that ' original sin is not properly a sin, but metonymically/ that is, '
the effect of one sin and the cause of many/ that in so saying he agrees ..."
5. The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review by John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone (1810)
"... remains one more conceit as to its origin, and that is, that it is ufed
metonymically, and this interpretation the learned author ..."
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