proprietarily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a proprietary way; with an air of ownership.
Example Sentences
- "In positioning black bodies as fundamentally incapable as they don the material mantles of, and carry out activities associated with, whiteness, the white viewer is inoculated against the shock of seeing African Americans engaging freely with a world that was once proprietarily their own. In other words, despite the law, African Americans are imposters."
Etymology
From proprietary + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more proprietarily (comparative)
most proprietarily (superlative)