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formally

[ fawr-muh-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a formal manner:

    The store was formally opened on Tuesday.

  2. as regards form; in form:

    It may be formally correct, but it is substantively wrong.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of formally1

1350–1400; Middle English. See formal 1, -ly
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"Though the Assad-era constitutions formally proclaimed political freedoms… our experience of political modernity came in the form of shells falling on our heads, while our bodies were laid bare in detention camps," he tells me.

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It was not until August 2019, at the age of 35, that he formally converted to Catholicism at a Dominican priory in Cincinnati.

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He urged the first minister to "formally end the divisive policy of gender self-identification".

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The squid was formally named and identified in 1925 but hadn’t been recorded alive until this instance.

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It still needs to be formally adopted by members when they meet for the World Health Assembly next month.

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