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in concreto

in concreto adverb: in a concrete sense; concretely.

Adverb

in concreto (comparative more in concreto, superlative most in concreto)

  1. In a concrete sense; concretely.
    • the sources of cognition on which alone the teacher can draw lie nowhere other than in the essential and genuine principles of reason, and consequently cannot be derived from anywhere else by the student, nor disputed in any way, precisely because reason is here used in concreto though nevertheless...1781, Immanuel Kant, The Critique on Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press, page 694
    • Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult.1902, William James, “Lecture II: Circumscription of the Topic”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC...

Forms of in concreto

comparativemore in concreto
superlativemost in concreto

Origin of in concreto

Borrowed from Latin in concreto.

Questions about in concreto

What does in concreto mean?
In concreto means in a concrete sense; concretely.
What part of speech is in concreto?
In concreto is an adverb.

Words near in concreto in the dictionary

  1. in compendio
  2. in competition
  3. in complement
  4. in concert
  5. in conclusion
  6. in concreto
  7. in condition
  8. in confidence
  9. in conjunction with
  10. in conscience
  11. in consequence

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