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incentively

incentively adverb: in a way that incites or encourages.

Adverb

incentively (comparative more incentively, superlative most incentively)

  1. In a way that incites or encourages.
    • Should she kill this magnetic spider, and so end its baleful influence? Incentively the trees hissed 'Yes, yes.' Motioning for them to be silent, she steadily watched the insidious spinner, now as if divining her purpose, merely an indrawn inert black speck but acutely watching her.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 289

Forms of incentively

comparativemore incentively
superlativemost incentively

Origin of incentively

From incentive + -ly.

Questions about incentively

What does incentively mean?
Incentively means in a way that incites or encourages.
What part of speech is incentively?
Incentively is an adverb.

Words near incentively in the dictionary

  1. incentify
  2. incentifying
  3. incenting
  4. incentive
  5. incentiveless
  6. incentively
  7. incentives
  8. incentivisation
  9. incentivise
  10. incentivised
  11. incentivises

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