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Definition of Substantively
1. adv. In a substantive manner; in substance; essentially.
Definition of Substantively
1. Adverb. In a substantive manner, or to a substantive extent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Substantively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Substantively
Literary usage of Substantively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Spanish Grammar by Elijah Clarence Hills, Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (1915)
"Adjectives used substantively. — In English, adjectives are sometimes used ...
If the adjective is used substantively as the name of a color or as an ..."
2. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"All has been used substantively from the most ancient times, ... Instances of
the neuter used substantively. Old-Engl.- Heaven and erth and alle that is ..."
3. A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution: And Laws of the United States by John Bouvier (1874)
"This word is used substantively to signify a possibility. For example, such a
thing is in posse, that is, such a thing may possibly be. ..."
4. Dutch Conversation-grammar by T. G. G. Valette (1913)
"Other parts of speech used substantively. § 642. Other parts of speech, ...
Some adjectives used substantively have got the character of a real noun. ..."
5. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820)
"... when the word is used substantively. As, for example, in this of Epicharmus ;a , '
i TÍ 9i"w nun ..."
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