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sacramentally

sacramentally adverb: in a sacramental manner.

Adverb

sacramentally (comparative more sacramentally, superlative most sacramentally)

  1. In a sacramental manner.
    • […] in the supper, or in the bread and wine (which two retaine their propre substaunces) they are Sacramentally or spiritually present, not substancially or bodily.1572, John Coxe, transl., Questions of Religion Cast Abroad in Helvetia by the Adversaries of the Same, and Aunswered by M. H. Bullinger of Zurick, London: George Byshop, page 92b
    • “But I have made up my mind that I am not your wife! I belong to him—I sacramentally joined myself to him for life. Nothing can alter it!”1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part 6, Chapter 3

Forms of sacramentally

comparativemore sacramentally
superlativemost sacramentally

Origin of sacramentally

From sacramental + -ly.

Questions about sacramentally

What does sacramentally mean?
Sacramentally means in a sacramental manner.
What part of speech is sacramentally?
Sacramentally is an adverb.

Words near sacramentally in the dictionary

  1. sacramentality
  2. sacramentalize
  3. sacramentalized
  4. sacramentalizes
  5. sacramentalizing
  6. sacramentally
  7. sacramentalness
  8. sacramentals
  9. Sacramentan
  10. Sacramentans
  11. sacramentarian

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