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Definition of Combatively
1. Adverb. In a bellicose contentious manner. "`Don't trespass onto my property,' the neighbor shouted combatively"
Definition of Combatively
1. Adverb. In a combative way. ¹
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Definition of Combatively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Combatively
Literary usage of Combatively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"Yet you are not to imagine that he holds his opinion combatively against his
critics. The verdict is with the observer. In the Comedies, and here and there ..."
2. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1906)
"I think, I must confess, that most persons who have used these words combatively
have, as Mr. Matthew Arnold most falsely and unjustly said of another ..."
3. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1875)
"I do answer your letters (somewhat combatively) every month in my mind, but all
these months I have been waiting for an hour of sufficient strength and ..."
4. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1871)
"A man may be " on the make " when he is keen after acquiring filthy lucre; " on
the fight" when he is combatively inclined ; " on the shoot " when ready ..."
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