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orthoepically

orthoepically adverb: in an orthoepical manner: pronounced correctly or in accordance with standard usage.

Adverb

orthoepically (not comparable)

  1. In an orthoepical manner: pronounced correctly or in accordance with standard usage.
    • While if they attempt the impossible feat of placing before our eyes the every-day life of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, they make them speak with the accent of the educated nineteenth-century Londoner; instead of showing us, orthoepically, that their speech was akin to that of the modern...1884, David MacRitchie, Ancient and Modern Britons: A Retrospect - Volume 2, page 383

Origin of orthoepically

From orthoepical + -ly.

Questions about orthoepically

What does orthoepically mean?
Orthoepically means in an orthoepical manner: pronounced correctly or in accordance with standard usage.
What part of speech is orthoepically?
Orthoepically is an adverb.

Words near orthoepically in the dictionary

  1. orthodromically
  2. orthodromics
  3. orthodromy
  4. orthoepic
  5. orthoepical
  6. orthoepically
  7. orthoepie
  8. orthoepies
  9. orthoepist
  10. orthoepistic
  11. orthoepistical

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