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Definition of Amatively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amatively
Literary usage of Amatively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1908)
"If you wish, replied Glaucon, to found on my case an assertion that the amatively
disposed thus act, I will allow you to do so for the argument's sake. ..."
2. Instructions and Methods Regarding Learning and Writing Bengali Language and by Edmund Saul Dixon, Nathan Brown, Art ancien S.A., Walter Taylor Field, Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.), Jyotish Chandra Ghose (1848)
"The Pheasants here have no objection, at any time, to an occasional
admixture (socially, we believe, not amatively ..."
3. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1859)
"... posteriorly, elongating his retractile abdomen, and as friend Rathvon says "he
has only to pat her amatively and cozily on ••the back, and say, ..."
4. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1860)
"Sup- the mixture to be made in the proportion of i atom of sul- i of nitre, and
3 atoms of carbon, the reaction may be amatively represented thus :— S + Cs ..."
5. The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art, and Literature edited by J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish (1893)
"... face out of every niche and angle of the quaint roadside walls, smiles at you,
the life plant clinging amatively about it, greeting you at every turn. ..."
6. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1863)
"A prisoner pleaded not guilty '•'iM indictment charging her with the crime of
child-murder, and -amatively with concealment of pregnancy. ..."
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