Definition of Strictly speaking

1. Adverb. In actual fact. "Properly speaking, they are not husband and wife"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Strictly Speaking

strict implication
strict implications
strict vegetarian
stricter
strictest
striction
strictions
strictly
strictly better
strictly decreasing function
strictly decreasing functions
strictly increasing function
strictly increasing functions
strictly proper
strictly speaking (current term)
strictness
strictnesses
stricture
strictured
strictureplasties
strictureplasty
strictures
stridden
striddle
striddled
striddles
stride
stride piano

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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