Definition of Characteristically

1. Adverb. In characteristic manner. "He arrived characteristically late"


Definition of Characteristically

1. adv. In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.

Definition of Characteristically

1. Adverb. In a usual or expected way; in characteristic manner. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Characteristically

characterised
characterises
characterisic function
characterising
characterism
characterisms
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characteristic X-ray
characteristic curve
characteristic emission
characteristic function
characteristic polynomial
characteristic polynomials
characteristic radiation
characteristical
characteristically (current term)
characteristicalness
characteristick
characteristicness
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characterizer
characterizers
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characterizing

Literary usage of Characteristically

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"Against this decision Wycliffe at -once appealed—characteristically and of course ... characteristically ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... or indifference which mountain lands have met from poetry, Shairp, so far as his skill served, merits a high place in characteristically modern verse. ..."

3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"... appreciation of Beethoven's works in North Germany, a service to which Beethoven characteristically refers in a letter1 to Schlesinger, Sept. 25, 1825. ..."

4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"It was predicted amongst them (falsely, but characteristically) that he would vote for the second reading of the Reform Bill. His clever consort was apt in ..."

5. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1885)
"These strata have yielded many characteristically Upper Silurian fossils, including 13 genera nnd 24 species of ..."

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