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[ adverb ] in such a manner as could not be otherwise

Examples

"it is necessarily so" "we must needs by objective"

Used in print

(Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)

An idea , of the sort that we have_in_mind , although of_necessity readily available to imagination , is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images , especially those appearing in lyric_poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience .

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