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Definition of Insubstantially
1. Adverb. Not substantially; lacking substantial expression or fullness.
Definition of Insubstantially
1. Adverb. In an insubstantial manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insubstantially
Literary usage of Insubstantially
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1905)
"In spite of his immanence in his work, he seems every now and then to dissolve
insubstantially away into his writing, as though he himself were only another ..."
2. Central Europe by Friedrich Naumann (1917)
"These unions will, like all new unions, seem at first to be founded somewhat
insubstantially and artificially, but from year to year their inner life and ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1897)
"The other three appellants each made a deposit, and each received from the
treasurer a certificate of deposit insubstantially the same form, ..."
4. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"Thus then did $nothing serve, however insubstantially, to anchor $root in its
rightful place atop the MOO's chain of being. Thus too, though, was it a kind ..."
5. The Midland by Frank Luther Mott, John Towner Frederick (1919)
"... an episode which for the space of a few years was only a mystery insubstantially
woven of detached words, silences, and apprehensive feelings. ..."
6. The American Ten Years' War, 1855-1865 by Denton Jaques Snider (1906)
"... and acting-Governors, no less than six in three years, rising and vanishing
so rapidly and so insubstantially before our eyes. What can be the matter? ..."
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