Definition of Datively

1. adv. As a gift.

Definition of Datively

1. Adverb. (rare) As a gift. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Datively

1. dative [adv] - See also: dative

Lexicographical Neighbors of Datively

dating agency
datings
dation
dation in payment
datiscin
datiscins
datival
dative
dative-case
dative bond
dative bonds
dative case
dative cases
dative executor
dative of purpose
datively (current term)
datives
datives of purpose
dato
datolite
datolites
datos
datto
dattos
datum
datum circle
datum circles
datum line
datum lines
datum plane

Literary usage of Datively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"... misuse of the sounds, not relatively ID the number of correct pronunciations of each sound, but only •datively to the total number of mispronunciations. ..."

2. The Law of Nations; Or, Principles of the Law of Nature by Emer de Vattel (1854)
"... cither in ex- come generally the understanding and datively permitting their own subjects law of nations a? regards colonies; and to partake ..."

3. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1898)
"... feelings (as integrated into impressions and ideas of objects, their relations, and ,eir motions). After closing the eyes and observing how datively ..."

4. The Earth and Man: Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography in Its by Arnold Guyot, Cornelius Conway Felton (1853)
"A sea breeze will be always moist '•datively temperate ; a land wind, dry and extreme, fr in cold or in heat. The first, ordinarily, is the 1 of rain; ..."

5. A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential by Horace Greeley, John Fitch Cleveland (1860)
"Tbe language of that bill which I have quoted, gave the full power and the full au- hority over the subject of Slavery, affirmatively and ne- datively, ..."

6. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1846)
"... confines the application of this law ex- datively to the phenomena of recollection alone, without any glimpse of a more ..."

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