differently

From Middle English differently; equivalent to different +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪfɹəntli/, /ˈdɪfəɹəntli/

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differently (comparative more differently, superlative most differently)

1. (manner) In a different way.
   • 1815, “Critical Analysis of Recent Publications”, in The Medical and Physical Journal, volume 34:

     I was (says Mr. Highmore) forcibly struck with the violence of its pulsation, so much so, that, if it had been differently situated, I should have considered it an aneurism of considerable magnitude.

   • 1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov:

     "You see, gentlemen, I couldn't bear the look of him, there was something in him ignoble, impudent, trampling on everything sacred, something sneering and irreverent, loathsome, loathsome. But now that he's dead, I feel differently."
     "How do you mean?"
     "I don't feel differently, but I wish I hadn't hated him so."
     "You feel penitent?"
     "No, not penitent, don't write that. I'm not much good myself; I'm not very beautiful, so I had no right to consider him repulsive. That's what I mean. Write that down, if you like."

   • 2007, Vanessa Leonardi, Gender and Ideology in Translation: Do Women and Men Translate Differently?:

     Recent research in the field of sociolinguistics and related fields has shown that women and men speak differently.

• differentliche

From different +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdifɛrɛntliː/, /diˈfɛrɛntliː/, /-liːtʃ(ə)/

differently

1. differently

• English: differently
• Scots: differently

• “differentlī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-31.