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nonpejoratively

nonpejoratively adverb: in a nonpejorative manner.

Adverb

nonpejoratively (comparative more nonpejoratively, superlative most nonpejoratively)

  1. In a nonpejorative manner.
    • Intensive regulation under the rubric of the public utility category was an attempt to juxtapose the coercive (nonpejoratively used) power of government with the coercive (nonpejoratively used) power of certain businesses.2002, Edythe Stern Miller, Warren J. Samuels, The Institutionalist Approach to Public Utilities Regulation, page 484
    • If one may speak nonpejoratively of "trends" in Platonic scholarship, I believe it is fair to say that, especially in the English-speaking world, there is a multifaceted trend to view Plato's dialogues "nondogmatically."2010, Gary Alan Scott, Does Socrates Have a Method?, →ISBN

Forms of nonpejoratively

comparativemore nonpejoratively
superlativemost nonpejoratively

Origin of nonpejoratively

From nonpejorative + -ly.

Questions about nonpejoratively

What does nonpejoratively mean?
Nonpejoratively means in a nonpejorative manner.
What part of speech is nonpejoratively?
Nonpejoratively is an adverb.

Words near nonpejoratively in the dictionary

  1. nonpeelable
  2. nonpeer
  3. nonpeers
  4. nonpegylated
  5. nonpejorative
  6. nonpejoratively
  7. nonpelagic
  8. nonpelvic
  9. nonpenal
  10. nonpenalized
  11. nonpending

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