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majoritively

majoritively adverb: by means of a majority.

Adverb

majoritively (comparative more majoritively, superlative most majoritively)

  1. By means of a majority.
    • The senate voted majoritively to pass the bill.
    • An alternative approach would be to create a board of mental health professionals and lawyers who would majoritively decide consent issues.1982, Lisa Robbin Grossman, Capacity of schizophrencis to give informed consent
  2. (proscribed) Consisting of more than half (50%); predominantly.
    • It is the imagination that is majoritively full of bad images and makes us anxious and restricted in our abilities to choose.1973, Brian P. Hall, Maury Smith, Value clarification as learning process: a handbook for religious educators
    • Segal tried to make a case for identifying the redshifts predicted by the conformal group with the redshifts of the galaxies, denying that the latter are majoritively Doppler shifts due to the expansion of the Universe.1980, Paul S. Wesson, Gravity, particles, and astrophysics: a review of modern theories of gravity and G-variability, and their relation to elementary particle physics and astrophysics

Forms of majoritively

comparativemore majoritively
superlativemost majoritively

Origin of majoritively

From majoritive + -ly.

Questions about majoritively

What does majoritively mean?
Majoritively means by means of a majority.
What part of speech is majoritively?
Majoritively is an adverb.

Words near majoritively in the dictionary

  1. majorite
  2. majorites
  3. majoritic
  4. majorities
  5. majoritive
  6. majoritively
  7. majoritization
  8. majoritizations
  9. majoritize
  10. majoritized
  11. majoritizes

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