• Intrinsically

    Full definition of intrinsically

    Adverb

    intrinsically

    1. In an intrinsic manner; internally; essentially.
      • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 16, The preposterous altruism too!...Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
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