Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In respect of territory; as to territory.

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

  • adverb In regard to territory; by means of territory.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a territorial manner
  • adverb Protecting one's territory

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with respect to territory

Etymologies

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territorial +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • While it's easy to assume a physical fence may not be an efficient deterrent, what's a viable alternative for a country to remain territorially sovereign?

    Don't fence me in David 2008

  • It may be that economic forces will bring a solution that doctrinaire policies cannot bring because the industrialization of the country has made the policy of apartheid completely impossible and impracticable so far as separation territorially is concerned.

    A Canadian Looks at South Africa 1956

  • C17 Poland while territorially imposing was politically and militarily feeble.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Fall of Poland 2010

  • It's only human to react territorially when a visitor presumes to have free reign in your backyard.

    Shirin Sadeghi: Hillary Clinton Wants Gaddafi Killed Shirin Sadeghi 2011

  • Though he never explicitly draws the parallel, he is clearly thinking of the bitterly controversial 1993 Oslo Agreement with Yasser Arafat's PLO that he, as Israel's foreign minister, was the main engineer of and that set the stage for the re-partition of Palestine after it was territorially re-united by the 1967 war.

    The Line Between Bold and Reckless Hillel Halkin 2011

  • As Clarissa Pinkola Estes says in "Women Who Run with the Wolves" 1996, "A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving."

    Gail Konop Baker: If Women Want Sex As Much As Men, Do The Rules Of Dating Change? Gail Konop Baker 2011

  • It's only human to react territorially when a visitor presumes to have free reign in your backyard.

    Shirin Sadeghi: Hillary Clinton Wants Gaddafi Killed Shirin Sadeghi 2011

  • Pakistan, with its “Islamic” nuclear bomb, Taliban - and al-Qaeda-infested northwestern borderlands, dysfunctional cities, and territorially based ethnic groups for whom Islam could never provide adequate glue, is commonly referred to as the most dangerous country in the world, a nuclear Yugoslavia-in-the-making.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • Pakistan, with its “Islamic” nuclear bomb, Taliban - and al-Qaeda-infested northwestern borderlands, dysfunctional cities, and territorially based ethnic groups for whom Islam could never provide adequate glue, is commonly referred to as the most dangerous country in the world, a nuclear Yugoslavia-in-the-making.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • As Clarissa Pinkola Estes says in "Women Who Run with the Wolves" 1996, "A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving."

    Gail Konop Baker: If Women Want Sex As Much As Men, Do The Rules Of Dating Change? Gail Konop Baker 2011

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