diachronically love

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  • adverb In a diachronic fashion, or in diachronic terms

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diachronic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • It is and remains a qualitative definition of the Church of the New Covenant that both synchronically and diachronically she is a Church made up of Jews and Gentiles, even if the quantitative ratio of Jewish and Gentile Christians may give a different impression.

    Confessing the Messiah: The Church's Confession of Christ in Jewish-Christian Dialogue - Bishop Müller's Statement Pt. III 2009

  • McCawley and Henrich (2006) take these findings as showing that the visual system is diachronically (as opposed to synchronically) penetrable, in that how one experiences the illusion-inducing stimulus changes as a result of one's wider perceptual experience over an extended period of time.

    Modularity of Mind Robbins, Philip 2009

  • Nor do the Segall et al. (1966) findings provide evidence that adults 'visual input systems are diachronically penetrable.

    Modularity of Mind Robbins, Philip 2009

  • The "slightness" of the ribbons holding the pictures together can be compared to the temporal, narrative dimension of all writing, which Darwin finds many ways to downplay in favour of the synchronically viewable pictures which — as in his repeated use of extended similes introduced by "So" or "Hence" — he often asks us to juxtapose and compare quasi-spatially rather than merely as diachronically successive.

    Introduction 2006

  • Would the pharyngeal have caused the nasalization (I've read nasalization may develop from pharyngeals and pharyngealization diachronically), or was it the PSem final *-m via regressive assimilation (and subsequent loss of the segment itself), or was the vowel in the second syllable syncopated and the newly arisen cluster metathesized (of course, with the necessary devoicing of *b)...

    Cool stuff about Etruscan phonotactics 2008

  • In addition, this observation bodes ill for the Kantian, insofar as it asserts the possibility of practical agency for those who do not view themselves as diachronically unified, i.e., unified practical agency may indeed not be a practical necessity.

    Personal Identity and Ethics Shoemaker, David 2008

  • All by itself, a Go piece can destroy an entire constellation synchronically; a chess piece cannot or can do so diachronically only.

    April « 2007 « Gerry Canavan 2007

  • The introduction is a strange and often contradictory text in which de Man provides an historico-fictional account of his own "generation" — understood synchronically and diachronically, both as a group of individuals and as an act of genesis.

    'At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...' 2005

  • Laid out diachronically in a roughly chronological sequence, they do not evolve in a manner that easily allows for dialectical progression or, ultimately, for historical totalization.

    Notes on ''At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'' 2005

  • All by itself, a Go piece can destroy an entire constellation synchronically; a chess piece cannot or can do so diachronically only.

    What Smart People Think about My Favorite Game « Gerry Canavan 2007

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