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Definition of Concessively
1. adv. By way of concession.
Definition of Concessively
1. Adverb. By way of concession. ¹
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Definition of Concessively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concessively
Literary usage of Concessively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life, Its True Genesis by Horatius Flaccus (1880)
"If they existed anywhere (which is concessively possible), with the necessary
environment (also concessively possible), then the mastodon could no more help ..."
2. 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 (1903)
"... the whole of the dispensations—belong to the God who is the Creator of this
world, according to the testimony of the clause (above »Said concessively ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"CONCEIVING, (kcn-se'-ving) ns Apprehension ; understanding.
concessively, ^n-ses'-siv-le) ad. Bj way of concession. ..."
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