Definition of Adversely

1. Adverb. In an adverse manner. "She was adversely affected by the new regulations"

Partainyms: Adverse

Definition of Adversely

1. adv. In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise.

Definition of Adversely

1. Adverb. In an adverse manner. ¹

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Definition of Adversely

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adversely

adversatively
adversatives
adverse
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adverse effect
adverse event
adverse impact
adverse opinion
adverse parties
adverse party
adverse possession
adverse reaction
adverse selection
adverse witness
adverse witnesses
adversely (current term)
adversely possess
adversely possesses
adverseness
adversenesses
adverser
adversest
adversifoliate
adversifolious
adversion
adversities
adversity
adversive movement
advertainment

Literary usage of Adversely

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

1. A Treatise on the Remedy by Ejectment and the Law of Adverse Enjoyment in by Ransom Hebbard Tyler (1870)
"So it would seem that, as a general rule, any person is capable of holding lands adversely BO as to bar the true owner of his action to recover the same, ..."

2. The Law of Charities and Mortmain: Being a 3d Ed. of Tudor's Charitable Trusts by Owen Davies Tudor, Leonard Syer Bristowe, Walter Ivimey Cook (1889)
"With regard to what is meant by claiming adversely to a charity, see note (</) to sect. 17 of this Act, post, p. 482. ..."

3. Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening (1844)
"... on &c., the defendant waived, relinquished and abandoned the said To rejoinder in trespass, that the close was not possessed adversely to the defendant, ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
""That an uninterrupted occupancy of land by a person who bas in fact no title thereto, for the period of ten years adversely to the true owner, ..."

5. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, United States Congress. Senate (1868)
"... Queens county," reported adversely thereto, which report was agreed to and said bill rejected. ,. , Mr. Crowley, from the committee on municipal affairs ..."

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