inimicably

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/ɪˈnɪ.mɪ.kə.bli/

adverb

In an inimicable manner.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adverbinimicably (comparative more inimicably, superlative most inimicably)

comparative more inimicably · superlative most inimicably

  1. rareIn an inimicable manner.

    We glowered inimicably at one another.

    1997, Chris Hunt, chapter 48, in Duval’s Gold, Swaffham, Norfolk: Gay Men’s Press, →ISBN, page 342
    2 more examples

    The exorcist must first ascertain if the elements (arbaʻah ʻanāṣir), the signs of the zodiac (burūj), and the planets (kawākib), are amicably or inimicably disposed to each other in the cases of these two individuals, and also if there is a combination expressed in the ism or name of God connected with their initial letters.

    1885, Thomas Patrick Hughes, “Daʻwah (دعوة)”, in A Dictionary of Islam […], London: W[illiam] H[oughton] Allen & Co., […], →OCLC, page 77, column 1

    It must be confessed, therefore, that vain people do not wish to please others so much as themselves, and that they go so far therein as to neglect their advantage, for they often endeavour to prejudice their fellow-men unfavourably, inimicably, enviously, consequently injuriously against themselves, merely in order to have pleasure in themselves, personal pleasure.

    1909, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Helen Zimmern, “Vanity”, in Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; 7), part I, Edinburgh; London: T[homas] N[oble] Foulis, →OCLC, 2nd division (The History of the Moral Sentiments), page 89

Origin

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