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shogunally

shogunally adverb: by a shogun or shoguns.

Adverb

shogunally (not comparable)

  1. By a shogun or shoguns.
    • Unfortunately for Takauji's hopes of easy consolidation of power, Godaigo once again escaped custody. This time he fled to the rugged mountains around Yoshino well to the south of Kyoto. There he established a government in exile and thus provided the incentive for a continuing struggle between the...1981, James H. Sanford, “Ikkyū Sōjun: His Life and Times”, in Zen-man Ikkyū (Studies in World Religions; 2), Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, →ISBN, page 3
    • Also outlined are the genres and topoi most infected by Ran, particularly those associated with the Floating World (ukiyo) – that demimonde that existed on the peripheries of the shogunally sanctioned metropoles.1996, Timon Screech, “Introduction”, in The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan: The Lens within the Heart, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN...

Origin of shogunally

From shogunal + -ly.

Questions about shogunally

What does shogunally mean?
Shogunally means by a shogun or shoguns.
What part of speech is shogunally?
Shogunally is an adverb.

Words near shogunally in the dictionary

  1. Shogren
  2. Shogrens
  3. shogs
  4. shogun
  5. shogunal
  6. shogunally
  7. shogunate
  8. shogunates
  9. Shogunite
  10. Shogunites
  11. shoguns

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