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unimitatively

unimitatively adverb: in an unimitative manner, not imitating something else.

Adverb

unimitatively (not comparable)

  1. In an unimitative manner, not imitating something else.
    • This tremendous scene […] is, in some respects of stage action, a counterpart of the awful scene between Lady Macbeth and the Thane of Cawdor after Duncan’s murder. Yet how thoroughly and unimitatively is it reconstructed on opposite lines by the most original English pupil of the great Elizabethan...1898, Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, Introduction to The Complete Works of Robert Browning, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Volume 3, p. xix
    • […] it is less of a mistake not to know that a female deer has no horns than to paint unimitatively.1961, Kenneth A. Telford (translator), Aristotle’s Poetics: Translation and Analysis, Chicago: Henry Regnery, Section 25, p. 50

Origin of unimitatively

From unimitative + -ly.

Questions about unimitatively

What does unimitatively mean?
Unimitatively means in an unimitative manner, not imitating something else.
What part of speech is unimitatively?
Unimitatively is an adverb.

Words near unimitatively in the dictionary

  1. unimetric
  2. unimitable
  3. unimitated
  4. unimitating
  5. unimitative
  6. unimitatively
  7. unimmaculate
  8. unimmediate
  9. unimmerged
  10. unimmergible
  11. unimmersed

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