English

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Etymology

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From lexical +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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lexically (not comparable)

  1. (manner) In a lexical manner.
    • 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 118:
      It is important to note that connotation is different from an unambiguous “double meaning” or “pun.” With a pun both meanings have to be lexically current but with connotation it is the multiple, even ambiguous, associations of each word that are important.)
  2. (domain) In terms of a lexicon.

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