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Definition of Alternatively
1. Adverb. In place of, or as an alternative to. "Alternatively we could buy a used car"
Definition of Alternatively
1. adv. In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.
Definition of Alternatively
1. Adverb. in an alternative way ¹
2. Adverb. (context: conjunctive) (non-gloss definition Used to link a pair of possibilities) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alternatively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alternatively
Literary usage of Alternatively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and by John Condie Steewart Sandeman (1905)
"... Employers' Liability Act.—Held that an action concluding for damages at common
law, and alternatively for damages under the Employers' Liability Act, ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"... or that division be postponed, until the attainment of the specified age; or
that the gift is alternatively expressed to be to certain persons, ..."
3. Elements of Logic as a Science of Propositions by Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones (1890)
"Of any two Conditional Propositions determinately combined, if the P's of the
A's are alternatively affirmed of any member (or members) of the class (or ..."
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