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adv. - As a word that modifies anything other than a noun or pronoun by answering how, when, or where.

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  • The prepositional phrase here is used adverbially
  • Given this account of the intentionality of perception, sensations are best understood adverbially, that is, as a way of perceiving objects in the world.
  • The same scholar remarks that δακρυοεν is used adverbially.
  • -- The infinitive phrase is here used adverbially to modify the predicate.
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