Russianly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Russian +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

Russianly (not comparable)

  1. in a Russian manner.
    • 1852, Joseph de Maistre, Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, page 162:
      Some few thankless foreigners may be as you say sadly Russian, but as to me I am Russianly sad. ...”
    • 1899, G. Bernard Shaw, The North American Review, page 256:
      To Americans, who, as I have pointed out, are as much concerned in the Censorship as the English are, the drama being practically international, this state of things may seem so Russianly subversive of fundamental western rights as to stand condemned by the mere statement of it.
    • 1973, Eve Babitz, Eve’s Hollywood, page 11:
      L’Histoire du Soldat is still a piece that excites me Russianly and makes me think of the devil.
    • 2000, Richard Taruskin, Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 105:
      WHAT LINKS the very disparate chapters that follow is the constant, implicit theme that has been the explicit subject of these introductory essays: that of defining Russia musically, along with its converse, defining music Russianly.