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HUMANLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does humanly mean?
• HUMANLY (adverb)
The adverb HUMANLY has 1 sense:
1. in the manner of human beings
Familiarity information: HUMANLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the manner of human beings
Context example:
humanly possible
Pertainym:
human (characteristic of humanity)
Context examples
Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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