Literary notes about adequately (AI summary)
The adverb "adequately" is employed in literature to signify the attainment of a necessary or sufficient degree of quality, detail, or function. It is used to convey that something performs its purpose satisfactorily—whether to protect a character during an investiture [1] or to prepare a child for future endeavors [2]. In philosophical and aesthetic discussions, authors invoke the term to stress that abstract notions or relations are expressed or conceived in a manner that sufficiently captures their essence [3, 4]. Scientific and critical texts also utilize "adequately" to indicate that theoretical or methodological concerns are treated with the proper level of thoroughness, be it in describing emotions [5], representing artistic judgments [6], or discussing complex social or political phenomena [7, 8]. Thus, by qualifying actions, perceptions, or descriptions, "adequately" consistently serves as a marker of just-right sufficiency in multifaceted narratives and analytical discourses.
- Immemorial to all his order, this investiture alone will adequately protect him, while employed in the peculiar functions of his office.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville - It exists, then, that the child may be adequately prepared for doing its great work in the world.
— from On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd - I say A cannot be conceived except adequately.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza - Charlotte, no word can adequately express this thought.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - When I think over this rumor, I cannot adequately express the emotions which seize me.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville - He pronounced adequately intelligent judgments on art and artists.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim - Manifestly it is expansion overseas; it is colonial aggrandizement which explains, and alone adequately explains, the World War.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois - The results so obtained can't be adequately double–checked.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
