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Etymology

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isolable +‎ -ly

Adverb

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isolably (not comparable)

  1. Such that it can be isolated.
    • 1965, Marxism Today, volume 9, Communist Party of Great Britain:
      Not that his achievement or his influence were ever, even in isolably literary terms, wholly good.
    • 1983, Geoffrey Thurley, Brian L. McGowan, Counter-Modernism in Current Critical Theory, page 13:
      Whatever ideas, schemata or world-views are isolably present in the classical work, the formal or artistic totality which they make up must always itself need interpreting []