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Definition of Controversially
1. Adverb. Involving controversy. "Criticism too polemically stated"
Definition of Controversially
1. adv. In a controversial manner.
Definition of Controversially
1. Adverb. In a controversial manner; due to controversy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Controversially
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Controversially
Literary usage of Controversially
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Unitarianism Defended: A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting by John Hamilton Thom, James Martineau, Henry Giles (1839)
"I have been charged with almost or altogether suppressing, in the delivery of
this Discourse, the word ' controversially.' " I eagerly assure Mr. ..."
2. The Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman: Based on His Private Journals and by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1912)
"Our great writers have generally written on occasion—controversially as Burke,
or Milton; officially, as Blackstone—for money as Dryden, Johnson, Scott &c., ..."
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