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Definition of Possessively
1. Adverb. In a possessive manner. "He was sleeping, one arm flung possessively across his wife"
Partainyms: Possessive
Definition of Possessively
1. adv. In a possessive manner.
Definition of Possessively
1. Adverb. in a possessive manner ¹
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Definition of Possessively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Possessively
Literary usage of Possessively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"Ae toon as l!ie years of his apprenticeship their matrimonial initials linked
possessively to those of their own commercial firm, and at the same time ..."