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translatively

translatively adverb: in a translative manner.

Adverb

translatively (not comparable)

  1. In a translative manner.
    • "To move in a sphere" is the peculiar privilege of gold and silver fish; and is, translatively, the most absurd of all those absurd expressions to which illiterate and unreflecting fashion has given currency.1846, “Edmund Burke”, in Douglas William Jerrold, editor, Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, volume 4, page 45
    • Only uppercase W can be formed by the reflexively or translatively symmetrical doubling of a grapheme, namely V.1994, Světla Čmejrková, Writing Vs Speaking: Language, Text, Discourse, Communication: Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Czech Language Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech...

Origin of translatively

From translative + -ly.

Questions about translatively

What does translatively mean?
Translatively means in a translative manner.
What part of speech is translatively?
Translatively is an adverb.

Words near translatively in the dictionary

  1. translatiouns
  2. translatitious
  3. translative
  4. translative case
  5. translative cases
  6. translatively
  7. translatives
  8. translatological
  9. translatologist
  10. translatologists
  11. translatology

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