Sentence:  “Taneic ," "Sabaneeff" and others preferred to be spelled abroad this way, rather than <WSD>transliterally</WSD> Tanyeyev or Sabanyeyev. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  In a way that exhibits simple transliteration; in a transliteral (transliterating) way; (that is,) being (or having been) transliterated.