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Definition of Informally

1. Adverb. Without formality. "He visited us informally"

2. Adverb. With the use of colloquial expressions. "This building is colloquially referred to as The Barn"

Definition of Informally

1. adv. In an informal manner.

Definition of Informally

1. Adverb. In an irregular or informal manner; without the usual forms. ¹

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Definition of Informally

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Informally

inforce inforced inforcement inforces inforcing inform informal informal fallacy informal logic informalities

informality informalize informalized informalizes informalizing informally (current term) informant informants informatic informatical

informatically informatician informaticians informaticist informaticists informatics information information age information and communications technology information bulletin

Literary usage of Informally

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

1. A Treatise on the Law of Set-off, Recoupment, and Counter Claim by Thomas Whitney Waterman (1869)
"Sufficient though pleaded informally. § 538. Although a set-off be pleaded informally, yet if the pleading show sufficient facts to constitute a legal and ..."

2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"A man, whose wife and children die after he has informally adopted a niece, with whom he continues to live, is a head of a family, within the meaning of the ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Previously to this the Blessed Sacrament is exposed, informally so to speak, by a priest in cotta and stole; and then choir and congregation are left to ..."

4. A Political and Civil History of the United States of America: From the Year by Timothy Pitkin (1828)
"Political relations with Great Britain under the new government—The president informally sounds the British government relative to the ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... indeed, they were such pleadings as required to be verified by affidavit' § 1754.* Depositions, though informally taken, are receivable. ..."

6. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1849)
"... to show indulgence and not exclude from the benefits of the church, those who have been received into it informally, and thus fallen asleep. ..."

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