Meanings
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1
adv
in a symbolic manner
Symbolically accepted goals.
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2
adv
by means of symbols
Symbolically expressed.
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3
adv
In a symbolic manner.
Haha, memes are funny! Until they totally become racist. Pepe the Frog lived a very normal meme life right up until online trolls turned him into a green thing of hate in 2016. It got so bad his creator symbolically killed him off in 2017.
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adv
As symbols or a symbol.
In the end, the deadlock was resolved by a minor -- but for the National Party symbolically important -- addition to one of the other subsections of the language clause.
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Etymology
From symbolical + -ly or symbolic + -ally.