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repressibly

repressibly adverb: in a repressible manner.

Adverb

repressibly (comparative more repressibly, superlative most repressibly)

  1. In a repressible manner.
    • He said, quoting Derrida, that to make such a claim is to exercise "a sovereignty always essentially colonial, which tends, repressibly and irrepressibly, to reduce languages to the One, that is, to the hegemony of the homogeneous."2022, James Gordley, The Eclipse of Classical Thought in China and The West, page 12

Forms of repressibly

comparativemore repressibly
superlativemost repressibly

Origin of repressibly

From repressible + -ly.

Questions about repressibly

What does repressibly mean?
Repressibly means in a repressible manner.
What part of speech is repressibly?
Repressibly is an adverb.

Words near repressibly in the dictionary

  1. repressest
  2. represseth
  3. repressibilities
  4. repressibility
  5. repressible
  6. repressibly
  7. repressilator
  8. repressilators
  9. repressing
  10. repressings
  11. repression

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