Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not corporeally.
- Unimportantly; not necessarily or essentially.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance.
- adverb In an unimportant manner or degree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
immaterial manner.
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Examples
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Edmund Kean was small in stature, though not so "immaterially" built as Lamb is said to have been.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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So I think elite has this meaning of people who can live immaterially, who are not burdened by fact, by mortgages certainly.
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So I think elite has this meaning of people who can live immaterially, who are not burdened by fact, by mortgages certainly.
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The dot paintings led to sprayed aluminum discs, five feet across, that jutted out from the wall and seemed to hover immaterially before the viewer.
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If she peered from the verandah into the brown-grey water, she thought she saw her three friends floating immaterially below, trussed in mossy ferns.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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To know a thing is for its ˜essence™ to exist immaterially in the mind.
Jacques Maritain Sweet, William 2008
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If she peered from the verandah into the brown-grey water, she thought she saw her three friends floating immaterially below, trussed in mossy ferns.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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If she peered from the verandah into the brown-grey water, she thought she saw her three friends floating immaterially below, trussed in mossy ferns.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Jim turned on his side, pulling an arm with him so that Doyler spooned beside, holding the arm to him, while his eyes closed, surely and immaterially to sink him in sleep.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Jim turned on his side, pulling an arm with him so that Doyler spooned beside, holding the arm to him, while his eyes closed, surely and immaterially to sink him in sleep.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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