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Definition of Strictly speaking
1. Adverb. In actual fact. "Properly speaking, they are not husband and wife"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strictly Speaking
Literary usage of Strictly speaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"There were thus no family names among the Celts, strictly speaking. The songs of
the Druids have perished with the names of the heroes they sang of; ..."
2. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1906)
"strictly speaking, it is only man who is made of dust and ashes, or, not to mince
matters, of dirt, whereas woman was made of a mire that had already been ..."
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)
"Moses, strictly speaking, was but the viceroy of Yahweh; and the same, to a
certain extent, may also be said of Joshua. Their successors, the judges, ..."
4. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"tary has, perhaps, strictly speaking, no property, general or special, in the
article deposited, (c) He has only the naked custody or possession, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"strictly speaking, the present schism dates from the Eastern repudiation of the
Council of Florence (in 1472). So although the names of Photius and ..."
6. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... respect to the central organ or stations ; though, strictly speaking, ...
strictly speaking ..."
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