Definition of "symbolically" [symbolically]

• In a symbolic manner. (adverb)
• By means of symbols or a symbol. (adverb)
• As symbols or a symbol. (adverb)

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• "Now I'd like to know why symbolically is in quotation marks and as is in bold."
• "So someone doesn't think of this as "God" do we really have to sprain ourselves because someone can't view the word symbolically?"
• "Lady Chatterley’s husband, symbolically, is impotent in the actual physical sense."