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pretensively

pretensively adverb: in a pretensive manner.

Adverb

pretensively (comparative more pretensively, superlative most pretensively)

  1. In a pretensive manner.
    • Let us not be too much taken, my friends, by the typology in which our gospel is here and there so feebly and pretensively dressed — the low perceptions, and the short culture, always putting their cheap honors and ornaments upon it.1876, Horace Bushnell, Sermons on Christ and His Salvation, page 263

Forms of pretensively

comparativemore pretensively
superlativemost pretensively

Origin of pretensively

From pretensive + -ly.

Questions about pretensively

What does pretensively mean?
Pretensively means in a pretensive manner.
What part of speech is pretensively?
Pretensively is an adverb.

Words near pretensively in the dictionary

  1. pretensioners
  2. pretensioning
  3. pretensionless
  4. pretensions
  5. pretensive
  6. pretensively
  7. pretensiveness
  8. pretentative
  9. pretention
  10. pretentions
  11. pretentiosity

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