Pecuniarily

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a pecuniary manner; in terms of money; financially. not-comparable

    "She knew of course what he meant—how it had taken his father-in-law's great fortune, and taken no small slice, to surround him with an element in which, all too fatally weighted as he had originally been, he could pecuniarily float...."

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"She knew of course what he meant—how it had taken his father-in-law's great fortune, and taken no small slice, to surround him with an element in which, all too fatally weighted as he had originally been, he could pecuniarily float...."

Etymology

From pecuniary + -ly.

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