proprietarily

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English

Etymology

From proprietary +‎ -ly.

Adverb

proprietarily (comparative more proprietarily, superlative most proprietarily)

  1. In a proprietary way; with an air of ownership.
    • 2015, Heidi Nast, “Pit Bulls, Slavery, and Whiteness in the Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.”, in Rosemary-Claire Collard, Kathryn Gillespie, editors, Critical Animal Geographies, page 138:
      In positioning black bodies as fundamentally incapable as they don the material mantles of, and carry out activities associated with, whiteness, the white viewer is inoculated against the shock of seeing African Americans engaging freely with a world that was once proprietarily their own. In other words, despite the law, African Americans are imposters.