herostratically

alternative Herostratically

1. not comparabledegreeTo an extent that attains infamy; infamously.

   It is precisely the same mode of thought, as lay behind Germany's herostratically notorious act of war when she marched through Belgium for the reason, as she said, that France had planned to march through it if she did not.

   1921, Jacob Wittmer Hartmann, Soviet Russia Pictorial, volume 3, page 67

2. not comparablemannerIn a manner using any means necessary.

   This is just another piece of common sense about philosophy, the one to which the pragmatists herostratically sacrificed everything else.

   1964, Gustav Bergmann, Logic and Reality, page 21

comparative more Herostratically · superlative most Herostratically

1. Alternative letter-case form of herostratically.

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   The directions followed by the apologists for modern monopoly capitalism are quite varied. An important place therein is occupied by the so-called theory of “democratization of capital.” This theory is by no means a new one. It was advanced by the revisionists at the very dawn of imperialism. Its most complete presentation was that of E[duard] Bernstein in his Herostratically notorious prerequisites for socialism, as V[ladimir] I[lyich] Lenin called them.

   1959 December, G. Khromushin, anonymous translator, “The Bourgeois Revisionist Myth of the ‘Democratization of Capital’”, in Problems of Economics: Selected Articles from Soviet Economics Journals in English Translation, volume II, number 8, New York, N.Y.: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 56–57

   What else does [David] Salle do in his parasitism of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, or similarly, does Julian Schnabel in his of Jackson Pollock and Joseph Beuys, but declare their supermanneristic Herostratism? Their punishment is that they know their art is not as heroic – as much of a “breakthrough” – as that of the artists they Herostratically appropriate.

   1993, Donald Kuspit, “Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde: From the Pursuit of the Primordial to the Nihilism of Narcissism”, in The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 26

   He saw him on TV. The policeman. Harry Hole. Hole was being interviewed because he had hunted down a serial killer in Australia. And Mathias was reminded of Gert Rafto’s advice: ‘Not on my beat.’ He also recalled, however, the satisfaction of having taken the life of the hunter. The feeling of supremacy. The feeling of power. Nothing later had quite compared with the murder of the police officer. And this Herostratically famous Hole appeared to have something of Rafto about him, some of the same offhandedness and anger.

   2010, Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett, “The Snowman”, in The Snowman (Harry Hole; 7), London: Harvill Secker, →ISBN, part 5, pages 402–403