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majoritarily

majoritarily adverb: mostly; predominantly.

Adverb

majoritarily (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon, non-native speakers' English) mostly; predominantly.
    • Alternatively, the large difference in reward value between sweetened water and intravenous cocaine found in the present study strongly suggests that despite all the appearances, rats are in fact majoritarily resilient to cocaine addiction.2009 September 9, Lauriane Cantin, Magalie Lenoir, Sarah Dubreucq, Fushia Serre, Caroline Vouillac, Serge Ahmed, “Choice reveals that rats are majoritarily resilient to cocaine addiction”, in Nature...
    • Therefore, even though those released on leaves from Germany were majoritarily ethnic Serbs and even though one of the avowed priorities of the Nedic government was to aid its co-nationals stationed in Germany as much as possible, the situation of those people who did not live up to the...2012, Ana Antić, “Police Force Under Occupation: Serbian State Guard and Volunteers' Corps in the Holocaust”, in Sara R. Horowitz, editor, Lessons and Legacies Volume X: Back to the Sources...

Origin of majoritarily

From majority + -ary + -ly. Perhaps a calque of French majoritairement or equivalents in other Romance languages.

Questions about majoritarily

What does majoritarily mean?
Majoritarily means mostly; predominantly.
What part of speech is majoritarily?
Majoritarily is an adverb.

Words near majoritarily in the dictionary

  1. majoritarian democracies
  2. majoritarian democracy
  3. majoritarianism
  4. majoritarianisms
  5. majoritarians
  6. majoritarily
  7. majoritary
  8. majorite
  9. majorites
  10. majoritic
  11. majorities

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