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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
humanly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
humanly possible (=possible for anyone)
▪ It is not humanly possible to work for more than fifteen hours a day.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
possible
▪ What she must do was concentrate on getting her memory back so that she could get home to them as soon as humanly possible.
▪ They demanded attention which it was not humanly possible to give.
▪ Acquaint yourselves with it as soon as is humanly possible.
▪ Our Government is fashioned to fulfill this concept so far as humanly possible.
▪ Although speechreaders learn the necessity for keen attention and mental focus, it is not humanly possible to focus attention all day.
▪ The task at hand was to devise an immediate gathering of the vestry and to make it as splendid as humanly possible.
▪ If so, will he ensure that a police officer accompanies every military patrol whenever humanly possible?
▪ He should be punished for as long as it is humanly possible to punish him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The poor animal's eyes seemed humanly expressive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All its suffering was condensed in its eyes which, in memory, are humanly expressive.
▪ Although speechreaders learn the necessity for keen attention and mental focus, it is not humanly possible to focus attention all day.
▪ Our Government is fashioned to fulfill this concept so far as humanly possible.
▪ Realism, though humanly exacting, is technically what comes naturally.
▪ They demanded attention which it was not humanly possible to give.
▪ What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Humanly

Humanly \Hu"man*ly\, adv.

  1. In a human manner; after the manner of men; according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue.
    --Sir W. Raleigh.

  2. Kindly; humanely. [Obs.]
    --Pope.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
humanly

c.1500, from human + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
humanly

adv. In a human manner.

WordNet
humanly

adv. in the manner of human beings; "humanly possible"

Usage examples of "humanly".

So, although he may yet be a bit of a bumbler, something of a bookish boob, a man given to a bit too much drinking, and still a klutz much top humanly prone to err, let us keep sight of the fact that he is learning something of the verities of Life-for he is, above all, a man of good intentions.

Mohammed the dragoman, by birth and education a thief, by nature a sluggard, spared no effort to reach Cairo in the shortest space of time humanly possible.

Settembrini, as critic, Hans Castorp thought, and whispered as much to his cousin, would doubtless have sharply characterized what they saw as repugnant to a humanistic sense, and have scarified with direct and classic irony the prostitution of technical skill to such a humanly contemptible performance.

We have to put that impactor on exactly the prescribed profile if we humanly can.

He began his inspection of the dreary sitting room knowing full well that MI5 had been there many times before him, had vacuumed and bagged and logged every microscopic particle, used black light and Luminol on the walls and furniture looking for blood spatter and done as thorough a job as was humanly possible.

And they had to pause to rest and drink, for Murg could get thirstier more often than seemed humanly possible, and shortness of breath was among his many failings.

Warren Commission attempted to move this time back beyond 1:15 to plausible claim Oswald had reached the Tippit murder scene in a more humanly possible time-frame than would be the case if Tippit had the encounter with his murderer any earlier.

Homeric, a humanly convincing postlude to a strained and ominously failed day.

The fact that your President, at the eager prompting of the Chiefs of Staff, the entire Pentagon, the NSA and your own Director, have ordered us to rescue the airframe if we humanly can?

Nothing less than an integration of that life itself, globally, through a single awareness, could make it flourish in a span humanly, rather than geologically, meaningful.

His personal security was as tight as he could humanly make it, but what about the Nervi holdings scattered around Europe?

She had to put as much distance between herself and the Earl of Shelldrake as swiftly as was humanly possible .

No stopping of the Tracts can, humanly speaking, stop the spread of the opinions which they have inculcated.

If the effects of the alien weapon corresponded at all closely to those of its humanly produced counterparts, a more central charge should have killed him quickly.

Rest assured that I shall get your rustbucket off my Base as soon as is humanly possible.