adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In regard or relation to language or linguistics.

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1860.  Marsh, Eng. Lang., xxii. 473. It is also linguistically important because [etc.].

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1865.  Max Müller, Chips (1886), II. xxv. 267. The similarity of customs … among races linguistically related to each other.

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1876.  Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. II. 130. Gawain Douglas, whose translation of the Æneid is linguistically valuable.

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