English

Adverb

symbolically ‎(comparative more symbolically, superlative most symbolically)

1. In a symbolic manner.
2. By means of symbols or a symbol.
3. As symbols or a symbol.
   • 2003 Summer, Kristin Henrard, “Post-Apartheid South Africa: Transformation and Reconciliation”, in World Affairs, page 37:

     In the end, the deadlock was resolved by a minor -- but for the National Party symbolically important -- addition to one of the other subsections of the language clause.

Related terms

• symbol
• symbolic
• symbolical

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