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quotation | quotationally |

As a noun quotation

is a fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc, may be quoted.

As an adverb quotationally is

as a quotation; by use of quotations.

quotation

English

(wikipedia quotation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.
    • "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
  • The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.
    • Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.

    Synonyms

    * quote * citation

    Derived terms

    * quotation mark * RFQ (request for quotation)

    Related terms

    * attestation

    quotationally

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • As a quotation; by use of quotations.
  • * 1922 , The Sewanee Review
    • I have presented this matter thus quotationally because I am anxious to emphasize Conrad's understanding loyalty to his art...
  • * 1994 , Harold M Schulweis, For Those Who Can't Believe
    • So as not to appear disbelieving, they opted to respond quotationally , to offer literal citation of chapter and verse.
  • * 1998 , Eloise Knowlton, Joyce, Joyceans, and the Rhetoric of Citation
    • In my quotationally informed analysis, the ages of the poet and auctoritas are similarly premodern modes...