verbalistically

verbalistically

English

Etymology

verbalistic +‎ -ally

Adverb

verbalistically (not comparable)

1. in a verbalistic manner.
   • 1940, American Association of University Women, AAUW Journal, page 214:

     We all accept that ideal verbalistically, but what proportion of the school children of this country have even the simple minimum service of an annual health and dental examination?

   • 2012, Eugene B. Borowitz, Talmud's Theological Language-Game, The: A Philosophical Discourse Analysis, SUNY Press (→ISBN), page 165:

     Had Boyarin left matters at this level, one might think that, for all the concern with culture as providing tools for our understanding, the commitment to intertextuality in literary studies would engender a hermetic, verbalistically regimented manner of reading.

   • 2018, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, Random House (→ISBN), page 28:

     Disrespect for the vapidly complicated, verbalistically derived truths has always been present in intellectual history, but you are not likely to see it in your local scientific reporter or college teacher: