Definition of "rhetorically" []

• In a rhetorical manner. (adverb)
• With reference to rhetoric. (adverb)

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• "(Of course, rhetorically is a critical modifier — there are the arguments that the right wants a Court to make law like a legislature as well, but to get there from your comment required assuming more subtlety in your critique than I usually read into a blog comment.)"
• "But simply pointing out problems, and waxing rhetorically, is not enough."
• "Of course this is true, but you did not merely put a name to it; you called rhetorically, for an action in response to it, and then you used this reversal of the objectifying gaze/logic–which I will say again is not a way out of a patriarchal view of the body–to justify that call."