complexionally love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the way of temperament; by natural disposition; constitutionally. Also complexionably.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb rare Constitutionally.

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  • adverb constitutionally

Etymologies

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complexional +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • For (beside that long time past holds no consideration unto a slender time to come) they had no small disadvantage from the constitution of old age, which naturally makes men fearful, and complexionally superannuated from the bold and courageous thoughts of youth and fervent years.

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • The breath of flattery blew upon him in every direction, and inflamed his vanity and self-love, while all the wiles and allurements which artful wantonness could practise upon unsuspicious youth, were played off against his heart; and thus his passions, which in all probability were complexionally strong, became ungovernable.

    The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810

  • For heads that are disposed unto Schism and complexionally propense to innovation, are naturally indisposed for a community, nor will be ever confined unto the order or oeconomy of one body; and therefore, when they separate from others, they knit but loosely among themselves; nor contented with a general breach or dichotomy with their Church do subdivide and mince themselves almost into Atoms.

    Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923

  • For heads that are disposed unto Schism and complexionally propense9 to innovation, are naturally indisposed for a community, nor will be ever confined unto the order or œconomy of one body; and therefore, when they separate from others, they knit but loosely among themselves; nor contented with a general breach or dichotomy with their Church do subdivide and mince themselves almost into Atoms.

    The First Part: Paras 1-35 1909

  • Heads that are disposed unto schism, and complexionally propense to innovation, are naturally indisposed for a community, nor will be ever confined unto the order or economy of one body; and, therefore, when they separate from others, they knit but loosely among themselves; nor contented with a general breach or dichotomy with their church, do subdivide and mince themselves almost into atoms.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909

  • Sir Thomas Browne in "The American Note Books" for 1837: "A story there passeth of an Indian King that sent unto Alexander a fair woman fed with aconite and other poisons, with this intent complexionally to destroy him."

    Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman 1886

  • "A story there passeth of an Indian king that sent unto Alexander a fair woman, fed with aconite and other poisons, with this intent complexionally to destroy him!"

    Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • But the _general spirit and tendency_ of his works is mischievous, -- and the more mischievous for this mixture: for perfect depravity of sentiment is not reconcilable with eloquence; and the mind (though corruptible, not complexionally vicious) would reject and throw off with disgust a lesson of pure and unmixed evil.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

  • For (beside that long time past holds no consideration unto a slender time to come) they had no small disadvantage from the constitution of old age, which naturally makes men fearful, and complexionally superannuated from the bold and courageous thoughts of youth and fervent years.

    Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

  • Nor can we extenuate the valor of ancient martyrs, who contemned death in the uncomfortable scene of their lives, and in their decrepit martyrdoms did probably lose not many months of their days, or parted with life when it was scarce worth the living; for (beside that long time past holds no consideration unto a slender time to come) they had no small disadvantage from the constitution of old age, which naturally makes men fearful, and complexionally superannuated from the bold and courageous thoughts of youth and fervent years.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

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