aboriginally

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   From or in the earliest known times.

   […] man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.

2. 2
   adv

   In the period before contact with Europeans (especially with reference to peoples subjected to colonization).

   Xaymaca, as the island was aboriginally known, is situated in the Caribbean Sea […].

3. 3
   adv

   By indigenous Canadians (often capitalized in this sense).

   All land subject to the claim becomes either Crown land or aboriginally-owned land.

4. 4
   adv

   To the utmost degree (modifying an adjective.)

   Though his rage against iniquity is aboriginally simple and childlike, and is certainly not always level-headed, it is never divorced from reason […].

From aboriginal + -ly.

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