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herostratically

herostratically adverb: to an extent that attains infamy; infamously.

Adverb (1)

herostratically (not comparable)

  1. (degree) To 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. In 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

Adverb (2) capitalized: Herostratically

Herostratically (comparative more Herostratically, superlative most Herostratically)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of herostratically.
    • 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...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...
    • 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...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...

Forms of herostratically

alternative formHerostratically
comparativemore Herostratically
superlativemost Herostratically

Origin of herostratically

From herostratic + -ally.

From Herostratic + -ally.

Questions about herostratically

What does herostratically mean?
Herostratically means to an extent that attains infamy; infamously.
What part of speech is herostratically?
Herostratically is an adverb.

Words near herostratically in the dictionary

  1. heros eponymus
  2. heroship
  3. heroships
  4. herostratic
  5. herostratic fame
  6. herostratically
  7. Herostratos
  8. Herostratus
  9. herotheism
  10. Heroux
  11. herp

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