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FORMALLY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a formal manner

Example:

he was dressed rather formally

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

informally (without formality)

Pertainym:

formal (being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress))

Sense 2

Meaning:

With official authorization

Example:

the club will be formally recognized

Synonyms:

formally; officially

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

formal (characteristic of or befitting a person in authority)

Credits

 Context examples: 

This cargo was consigned to a Whitby solicitor, Mr. S. F. Billington, of 7, The Crescent, who this morning went aboard and formally took possession of the goods consigned to him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The 900m-wide Ryugu asteroid, formally known as 162173, is thought to be a relic from the earliest days of our solar system.

(First Ever Video of Asteroid Sent Back to Earth by Japanese Rovers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He then formally declared war against Pedro Lopez, the leader of the slave-drivers, enrolled a band of runaway slaves in his service, armed them, and conducted a campaign, which ended by his killing with his own hands the notorious half-breed and breaking down the system which he represented.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While they snugly repair to their own end of the house, she is formally conducted by Dorothy, the ancient housekeeper, up a different staircase, and along many gloomy passages, into an apartment never used since some cousin or kin died in it about twenty years before.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Corrected, or altered formally.

(Amended, NCI Thesaurus)

Now, new analysis of the object — formally named 1I/2017 U1, with a common name of 'Oumuamua — by an international team of astronomers and co-led by University of Maryland associate research scientist Matthew Knight has been published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

('Oumuamua interstellar object was not an alien spacecraft, National Science Foundation)

They cannot yet formally disprove the possibility that these stars are binaries, it seems much more natural to accept that there are three generations of stars that formed in succession, within less than three million years.

(A Tale of Three Stellar Cities, ESO)

The archaeologists say that this study is the first attempt to formally examine the idea that the locations of the moai are correlated to locations of resources important to the people who built them, such as fresh water.

(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)

Jupiter is the natural ruler of your career sector, so from now on, you will be more successful by working less formally, writing reports, having meetings, and by being out socializing.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She was brought into the parlour with many tokens of welcome, and there formally recognized my mother as a new and near relation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)