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tonsorially

tonsorially adverb: in a tonsorial manner or context.

Adverb

tonsorially (not comparable)

  1. In a tonsorial manner or context.
    • Omerie, with his shaven head and Edwardian elegance, had permanently arrested his own development, tonsorially and sartorially speaking, at the modes of London in the Fifties[…]1974, Coleman Dowell, Mrs. October was Here, page 46
    • Cold sweats among the tonsorially challenged.1994, Jack Zimmerman, Ten Thousand Years in the Suburbs, page 56

Origin of tonsorially

From tonsorial + -ly.

Questions about tonsorially

What does tonsorially mean?
Tonsorially means in a tonsorial manner or context.
What part of speech is tonsorially?
Tonsorially is an adverb.

Words near tonsorially in the dictionary

  1. tonsils
  2. Tonsky
  3. Tonskys
  4. tonsor
  5. tonsorial
  6. tonsorially
  7. tonsors
  8. tonstein
  9. tonsteins
  10. tonsular
  11. tonsure

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