interstitially love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In or by interstices; in interstitial spaces.

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  • adverb In an interstitial way.

Etymologies

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interstitial +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • BOOK: She is an unreliable narrator who frequently interstitially lambasts her adult son in a most amusing manner when he attempts to make her tell the truth, or conceal it in a ladylike fashion!

    Adult Fic, I Read That Too karenhealey 2010

  • And it is hard work to extract that oil out from an engineering standpoint; the oil molecules in chemical terms are deeply buried interstitially in the dirt.

    U.S. Needs Deepwater Drilling Or It's In Deep Doo-Doo Mark P. Mills 2010

  • Now, if that doesn't sound like the most interesting story in the world this is partially because I'm not very good at plot summarizing but mainly because the real worth of this novella lies in the atmosphere that Mr. Russell creates and the things he insinuates interstitially.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • She knows that above all her task is to apply the law in accordance with the intent of those with the authority to enact it, and to make law herself only interstitially.

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg Release ITY National Archives 1993

  • She knows that above all her task is to apply the law in accordance with the intent of those with the authority to enact it, and to make law herself only interstitially.

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg Release ITY National Archives 1993

  • In Plato's scheme for a society subject to the rule of law, there are other doors left open for equity to enter, though covertly and interstitially.

    EQUITY IN LAW AND ETHICS MILTON R. KONVITZ 1968

  • Justice Holmes 'dissent is notable among other reasons for his epigrams that "Judges do and must legislate, but they can do so only interstitially; they are confined from molar to molecular motions," ibid. 221; and that "the common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky but the articulate voice of some sovereign or some quasi-sovereign that can be identified."

    The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

  • In more northern parts of this continent, and in northwestern Europe, particularly in the moist climate of Ireland, climbing bogs occupy great areas, and hold up their lakes of interstitially contained water over the slopes of hills, where the surface rises at the rate of thirty feet or more to the mile.

    Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873

  • Following this routine for 30 days will optimize concentrations of the ingredients in SizeOn in skeletal muscle tissue both intra-cellularly and interstitially.

    Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34; 2010

  • I think my favorite part of the film was that it paid very specific tribute to the breadth of this fandom by using nothing but fan-made versions of familiar scenes interstitially.

    Film School Rejects Brian Salisbury 2010

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