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proprietarily

adverb

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adv

Etymology: From proprietary + -ly.

  1. In a proprietary way; with an air of ownership.

    In positioning black bodies as fundamentally incapable as they don the material mantles of, and carry out activities associated with, whiteness, the white viewer is inoculated against the shock of seeing African Americans engaging freely with a world that was once proprietarily their own. In other words, despite the law, African Americans are imposters.