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Definition of Compulsively
1. Adverb. In a compulsive manner. "He cleaned his shoes compulsively after every walk"
Definition of Compulsively
1. adv. By compulsion; by force.
Definition of Compulsively
1. Adverb. In a compulsive manner; obsessively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Compulsively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compulsively
Literary usage of Compulsively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Register, Or, Summary Review of History, Politics, and Literature by Robert Walsh (1817)
"No one presumes to contend, that the state governments can operate compulsively
on the general government or any of its departments, even in cases of ..."
2. The American Law Journal by John Elihu Hall (1817)
"On individuals, in their individual capacities. No one presumes to contend, that
the state governments can operate compulsively on the general go- ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Yet such is the humanity of our laws, that no woman can be compulsively questioned
concerning the father of her child, till one month after her delivery: ..."
4. The Works of Alexander Hamilton by Alexander Hamilton (1904)
"It acts compulsively upon all persons, whether foreigners or citizens, and upon
all things within the territory of such nation, and also upon its own ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"It may give him the privileges of a subject, but it does not follow that it can
compulsively oblige him to renounce his former allegiance. ..."
6. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary by Joseph Story (1891)
"Georgia, put his opinion mainly on the ground that it was a suit for a debt for
which no action lay, at least compulsively, at the common law against the ..."
7. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1859)
"The resident play-goers were compulsively banished by the " hundred and fifty-fourth
night of the ' Alhambra,' " the " two hundred and twenty-third of ..."
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