Adverbialist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An advocate of adverbialism

    "The natural move for the adverbialist to make is to propose the following distinguishable renderings: “I am thinking green-dragon-wise and purple-butterfly-wise” for the former and “I am thinking purple-dragon-wise and green-butterfly-wise” for the latter."

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"The natural move for the adverbialist to make is to propose the following distinguishable renderings: “I am thinking green-dragon-wise and purple-butterfly-wise” for the former and “I am thinking purple-dragon-wise and green-butterfly-wise” for the latter."

Etymology

From adverbial + -ist.

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