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anonymously

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a·non·y·mous  (-nn-ms)
adj.
1. Having an unknown or unacknowledged name: an anonymous author.
2. Having an unknown or withheld authorship or agency: an anonymous letter; an anonymous phone call.
3. Having no distinctive character or recognition factor: "a very great, almost anonymous center of people who just want peace" (Alan Paton).

[From Late Latin annymus, from Greek annumos, nameless : an-, without; see a-1 + onuma, name (influenced by earlier nnumnos, nameless); see n-men- in Indo-European roots.]

a·nony·mous·ly adv.
a·nony·mous·ness n.
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Adv.1.anonymously - without giving a name; "she wrote these letters anonymously"
Translations
anonymously [əˈnɒnɪməslɪ] ADV [send, give, speak] → anónimamente, de manera anónima; [live] → en el anonimato; [publish] → de forma anónima, sin el nombre del autor
the book came out anonymouslyel libro salió de forma anónima or sin el nombre del autor
anonymously [əˈnɒnɪməsli] adv (= namelessly) [send, speak, publish] → anonymement
anonymously [əˈnɒnɪməslɪ] advanonimamente
to write anonymously to sb → scrivere una lettera anonima a qn


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Finding her too fidgety about arranging matters with her friends to pay proper attention to my instructions, I wrote anonymously to the lawyer who is conducting the inquiry after her, recommending him, in a friendly way, to give it up.
He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously.
If I relieve them anonymously in their present trouble, I spare them the exposure of a public subscription, and I do what I believe his Lordship would have done himself if he had lived.
 
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