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casuistically

casuistically adverb: using casuistry or casuistics.

Adverb

casuistically (comparative more casuistically, superlative most casuistically)

  1. Using casuistry or casuistics.
    • He approached the moral dilemma casuistically, not abstractly from first principles.
  2. (domain) From the perspective of casuistics or casuistry.
    • Those ideals are casuistically the best whose realisations lead to least number of other ideals sacrificed.1967, Satyananda, World ethics
    • Rule-utilitarian arguments — arguments that proceed from the consequences of our moral rules rather than of our individual acts — are casuistically very powerful.1978, Philip E. Devine, The ethics of homicide

Examples of casuistically in a sentence

  • She would then be — casuistically, I suppose, and legally, without doubt — worse off than the seduced Isabella: for Isabella would have submitted to Angelo without consent of the will1987, Harold Bloom, William Shakespeare's measure for measure:
  • Critics may point out flaws in this story, which is casuistically vulnerable2006, Inazo Nitob, Bushido, the Soul of Japan, page 22:

Forms of casuistically

comparativemore casuistically
superlativemost casuistically

Origin of casuistically

From casuistic + -ally.

Questions about casuistically

What does casuistically mean?
Casuistically means using casuistry or casuistics.
How do you use casuistically in a sentence?
She would then be — casuistically, I suppose, and legally, without doubt — worse off than the seduced Isabella: for Isabella would have submitted to Angelo without consent of the will
What part of speech is casuistically?
Casuistically is an adverb.

Words near casuistically in the dictionary

  1. Casubians
  2. Casuguran
  3. casuist
  4. casuistic
  5. casuistical
  6. casuistically
  7. casuistics
  8. casuistries
  9. casuistry
  10. casuists
  11. casula

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