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Webster 1913 Edition


Abstractively

Ab-strac′tive-ly

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adv.
In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself.
Feltham.

Definition 2024


abstractively

abstractively

English

Adverb

abstractively (comparative more abstractively, superlative most abstractively)

  1. (now rare) In an abstract manner; in the abstract. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]

References

  1. Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 10