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Definition of Consumptively
1. adv. In a way tending to or indication consumption.
Definition of Consumptively
1. Adverb. In a consumptive manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Consumptively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consumptively
Literary usage of Consumptively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering by Joan Burrelli, Carolyn Arena, Carolyn Shettle, Deborah Fort (1998)
"Industrial withdrawals/use (other than thermoelectric)—Includes the water
withdrawn/consumptively used in facilities that manufacture products (including ..."
2. Water Use Conflicts in the West: Implications of Reforming the Bureau of by Marca Weinberg (1998)
"Water that is consumptively used is lost to future beneficial uses. Water that
is not consumptively used may flow back to rivers via overland channels ..."
3. Life and Writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine, Daniel Edwin Wheeler (1908)
"... as well conspiracies as commotions, that have succeeded each other in this
Revolution, we shall see how the former have wasted consumptively away, ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1868)
"... of maddened lamentation, wailing for her lost and last relic, than to mope
away consumptively, according to ultramontane views of the interesting. ..."
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