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perfectively

perfectively adverb: in a perfective manner or context.

Adverb

perfectively (not comparable)

  1. In a perfective manner or context
    • From these two claims I make the following evident argument: God would not have seen anything unless he had possessed those things, but to possess them only perfectively and not in a representational mode would not have sufficed to have cognized them.2002, Robert Pasnau, Norman Kretzmann, Eleonore Stump, The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts

Origin of perfectively

From perfective + -ly.

Questions about perfectively

What does perfectively mean?
Perfectively means in a perfective manner or context.
What part of speech is perfectively?
Perfectively is an adverb.

Words near perfectively in the dictionary

  1. perfectists
  2. perfectitude
  3. perfective
  4. perfective aspect
  5. perfective aspects
  6. perfectively
  7. perfectiveness
  8. perfectivenesses
  9. perfectives
  10. perfectivity
  11. perfectivization

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