biblically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.26 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Alternative letter-case form of biblically.
Example Sentences
- "Furthermore, what would otherwise be good points about the sort of selective literalism that renders homosexuality an unpardonable sin but shrugs off Sarah Palin’s biblically forbidden pearl earrings are lost in Eichenwald’s assumption that evangelicals make these decisions “with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.”"
- "Most of them showed an intimate knowledge of the young blonde, leading Seth to the conclusion they had known her biblically."
- "He so fine, he got me down bad biblically."
- "He is now in practice, and must be past the midway point of the Biblically allotted span of man’s life."
- "“We’re a Biblically illiterate community,” acknowledges the Rev. Randall Updegraff Spleth, the 34-year-old pastor of booming Geist Disciples of Christ Church in Indiana."
- "Freyda had cursed her then, with a hatred so venomous, so long-stifled, so Biblically intense that she had immediately repressed the exact words her friend said."
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek βῠ́βλος (bŭ́blos) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion) Ancient Greek βυβλίον (bublíon) Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon) Ancient Greek βῐβλῐ́ᾰ (bĭblĭ́ă)bor. Latin Biblia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Medieval Latin biblicus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English biblical Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English biblically From biblical + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more Biblically (comparative)
most Biblically (superlative)