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Definition of Adoptively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adoptively
Literary usage of Adoptively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dark Ages: A Series of Essays Intended to Illustrate the State of by Samuel Roffey Maitland (1853)
"But this adoptively, and not substantively. There is but One who is the Son of
God substantively, many adoptively; neither one adoptively nor many ..."
2. The Dark Ages: Essays Illustrating the State of Religion and Literature in by Samuel Roffey Maitland (1845)
"But this adoptively, and not substantively. Them is but One who is the Son of
God substantively, many adoptively ; neither one adoptively nor many ..."
3. Fifty Years of Darwinism: Modern Aspects of Evolution; Centennial Addresses by Granville Stanley Hall, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Charles Benedict Davenport, William Ernest Castle, Daniel Trembly Macdougal, Edmund Beecher Wilson, David Starr Jordan, John Merle Coulter, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton (1909)
"And, it it argued, that where all things happened as if they were made for some
purpose, being aptly [adoptively'] united by chance, these were preserved, ..."
4. From the Greeks to Darwin: An Outline of the Development of the Evolution Idea by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1905)
"... being aptly (adoptively) united by chance, these were preserved, oui such as
were not aptly (adoptively) made, these were lost and still perish, ..."
5. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to ...by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"For God is powerful in all things, having been seen at that time indeed,
prophetically through the Spirit, and seen, too, adoptively through the Son; ..."
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