symbolically

adv

Etymology: From symbolical + -ly or symbolic + -ally.

1. In a symbolic manner.

   “Haha, memes are funny! Until they totally become racist. Pepe the Frog lived a very normal meme life right up until online trolls turned him into a green thing of hate in 2016. It got so bad his creator symbolically killed him off in 2017.”

2. By means of symbols or a symbol.
3. As symbols or a symbol.

   “In the end, the deadlock was resolved by a minor -- but for the National Party symbolically important -- addition to one of the other subsections of the language clause.”