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Definition of Legalistically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legalistically
Literary usage of Legalistically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Risk Management of Everything: Rethinking the Politics of Uncertainty by Michael Power (2004)
"... voluntary codes and organisation-specific rules is not useful; all are
effectively experienced by organisational participants 'legalistically' and ..."
2. The Mercersburg Review by Alumni Association, Pa.) Marshall College (Mercersburg (1849)
"Luther contended against image abolitionists, who made a sin of images legalistically
as such, and thought that everything was done, when they were ..."
3. Mercersburg Review (1849)
"Luther contended against image abolitionists, who made a sin of images legalistically
as such, and thought that everything was done, when they were ..."
4. The Return of the Middle Class by John Corbin (1922)
"... while our legislators struggle legalistically at the task of adapting the
static common law to the regulation of a new world, splendidly dynamic. ..."
5. Documentary History of the Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania (1898)
"The doctrine is often expounded too dryly, too legalistically, too gently, in
too lofty or in too undignified a manner. When it is rightly understood and ..."
6. The Russian Pendulum: Autocracy by Arthur Bullard (1919)
"But if Kerensky, making up his mind to lose the support of these legalistically
minded politicians of the Intel- ..."
7. The Relation of John Locke to English Deism by Samuel Gring Hefelbower (1918)
"After the manner of the times the Deists conceived religion legalistically.
It consisted largely, perhaps almost entirely, in obeying certain laws. ..."
8. Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering by Alfred Korzybski (1921)
"They did not feel it "proper" to "expropriate the creator" and legalistically
appropriate the earth and its treasure for themselves. ..."
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