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Grammar : Adv
Spell : tan-juh-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtæn dʒə bəl



Definition of tangibly

Origin :
  • 1580s, "capable of being touched," from Middle French tangible, from Late Latin tangibilis "that may be touched," from Latin tangere "to touch" (see tangent). Sense of "material" (e.g. tangible reward) is first recorded 1610s; that of "able to be realized or dealt with" is from 1709.
  • As in materially : adv concerning matter
  • As in ostensively : adv apparently
  • As in apparently : adv seemingly
Example sentences :
  • The image of the pale girl rose before him, tangibly distinct.
  • Extract from : « The Emperor, Complete » by Georg Ebers
  • I had been tangibly smitten; I longed to be tangibly healed.
  • Extract from : « Richard Vandermarck » by Miriam Coles Harris
  • Through the feeling of doom that filled the room as tangibly as a scent I stretched out to the thought of Chris.
  • Extract from : « The Return of the Soldier » by Rebecca West
  • An expert accomplishes his deceit without anything so grossly and tangibly honest as a lie; and Louis was an expert.
  • Extract from : « Lords of the North » by A. C. Laut
  • The air was charged with something that all felt too tangibly oppressive, yet none could define, save the two—who would not.
  • Extract from : « One Day » by Anonymous
  • The moral values are there, so to speak, palpably, tangibly; and the individual has only to use his mind enough to notice them.
  • Extract from : « Ethics » by John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts
  • Nay, apart from spiritualities; and considering him merely as a real, marketable, tangibly useful possession.
  • Extract from : « Heroes and Hero Worship » by Thomas Carlyle
  • It was only ten days later, at high mass, that the success of her strategy was tangibly proved.
  • Extract from : « Cape Breton Tales » by Harry James Smith
  • Human in form, visibly and tangibly human, no soul sat in her great eyes that a man could discern.
  • Extract from : « Lore of Proserpine » by Maurice Hewlett
  • In the nights which followed “he slept in a kind of hunger to feel her physically and tangibly in his arms.”
  • Extract from : « Sleep Walking and Moon Walking » by Isidor Isaak Sadger

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