In a way that is broken into fragments or incomplete parts; discontinuously.
Derived from 'fragmentary' (meaning existing in fragments) plus the adverbial suffix '-ly'. This creates an adverb that describes actions or states that occur in a fragmented, discontinuous manner.
Shakespeare and other writers experienced history fragmentally—they knew their own era in vivid detail but had only scattered, broken pieces of information about the Roman Empire they so admired, which is why their plays imagined such different versions of ancient Rome.
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