paraˈdoxically, adv.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a paradoxical manner; in such a way or sense as to involve a paradox.
| 1581 Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 51, I aunswere paradoxically, but truely. 1606 Sir G. Goosecappe v. i. in Bullen O.P. (1884) III. 81 Divinely spoken, Sir, but verie Paradoxicallie. 1788 Priestley Lect. Hist. v. lxiv. 512 Some persons have paradoxically maintained that there can be no inconvenience whatever attending any national debt. 1859 Geo. Eliot A. Bede v, Nevertheless, to speak paradoxically, the existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. |