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Definition of Datively
1. adv. As a gift.
Definition of Datively
1. Adverb. (rare) As a gift. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Datively
1. dative [adv] - See also: dative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Datively
Literary usage of Datively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"... misuse of the sounds, not relatively ID the number of correct pronunciations
of each sound, but only •datively to the total number of mispronunciations. ..."
2. The Law of Nations; Or, Principles of the Law of Nature by Emer de Vattel (1854)
"... cither in ex- come generally the understanding and datively permitting their
own subjects law of nations a? regards colonies; and to partake ..."
3. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1898)
"... feelings (as integrated into impressions and ideas of objects, their relations,
and ,eir motions). After closing the eyes and observing how datively ..."
4. The Earth and Man: Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography in Its by Arnold Guyot, Cornelius Conway Felton (1853)
"A sea breeze will be always moist '•datively temperate ; a land wind, dry and
extreme, fr in cold or in heat. The first, ordinarily, is the 1 of rain; ..."
5. A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential by Horace Greeley, John Fitch Cleveland (1860)
"Tbe language of that bill which I have quoted, gave the full power and the full
au- hority over the subject of Slavery, affirmatively and ne- datively, ..."
6. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1846)
"... confines the application of this law ex- datively to the phenomena of recollection
alone, without any glimpse of a more ..."