coincidentally = ironically = also

[Jonathan Lighter]

Like "ironically."

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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Or is "coincidentally" simply used in place of (perhaps confused with) "incidentally"?

--Charlie
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>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:40:23 -0800
>From: Jonathan Lighter
>Subject: coincidentally = ironically = also
>
>Discovered, as usual, by chance:
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> 1999 _Novels for Students_ (ed. D. A. Stanley) (Detroit: Gale) VII 53: Though written in 1891, _Billy Budd_...was first published posthumously in 1924. Coincidentally, the English composer Edward Benjamin Britten, aided by E. M. Forster's libretto, made _Billy Budd_ into an opera in 1951.
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> JL

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