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symbolicly

symbolicly is the dated form of symbolically.

Meaning of symbolically

Adverb

symbolically (comparative more symbolically, superlative most symbolically)

  1. In a symbolic manner.
    • Haha, memes are funny! Until they totally become racist. Pepe the Frog lived a very normal meme life right up until online trolls turned him into a green thing of hate in 2016. It got so bad his creator symbolically killed him off in 2017.2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN
  2. By means of symbols or a symbol.
  3. As symbols or a symbol.
    • In the end, the deadlock was resolved by a minor -- but for the National Party symbolically important -- addition to one of the other subsections of the language clause.2003 Summer, Kristin Henrard, “Post-Apartheid South Africa: Transformation and Reconciliation”, in World Affairs, volume 166, number 1, page 37

Forms of symbolicly

comparativemore symbolicly
superlativemost symbolicly

Questions about symbolicly

What is symbolicly the dated form of?
Symbolicly is the dated form of symbolically.

Words near symbolicly in the dictionary

  1. symbolicates
  2. symbolicating
  3. symbolication
  4. symbolicism
  5. symbolicisms
  6. symbolicly
  7. symbolicness
  8. symbolics
  9. symbolification
  10. symbolifications
  11. symbolified

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Adapted from Wiktionary: symbolicly (page history and authors); symbolically (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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