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Basically

adverb

In essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature. Synonyms: essentially, fundamentally. "The argument was essentially a technical one" , "For all his bluster he is in essence a shy person"

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... yet another phenomenon: that of the artist endowed with all the powers of craftsmanship yet serving an end neither basically spiritual nor basically aesthetic, but definitely professional. We have George Vasari's word for it; and Vasari's blame upon the extravagant and too-well-beloved Lucrezia. To-day we are so accustomed to the idea of the professional attitude to art that we can accept it in Andrea without ...

— Fra Bartolommeo • Leader Scott (Re-Edited By Horace Shipp And Flora Kendrick)