Definition of Prospectively

1. adv. In a prospective manner.

Definition of Prospectively

1. Adverb. In a prospective manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prospectively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prospectively

prosopons
prosopopeia
prosopopesis
prosopopoeia
prosopopoeiae
prosopopoeias
prosopopœic
prosopopœiæ
prosos
prospect
prospected
prospecting
prospection
prospective
prospective(a)
prospectively (current term)
prospectiveness
prospectless
prospector
prospectors
prospects
prospectus
prospectuses
prosper
prospered
prospereth
prospering
prosperite
prosperities
prosperity

Literary usage of Prospectively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Statutes and Statutory Construction: Including a Discussion of Legislative by Jabez Gridley Sutherland (1904)
"Statutes operate prospectively only unless intent clear to the contrary.— The general rule is that statutes will be construed to operate prospectively only, ..."

2. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"I wish to settle it in the District of Columbia, to dispose of it prospectively in Maryland, and wherever else we have a hold in the slave states. ..."

3. American Inter-state Law by David Rorer (1879)
"... OF OTHER STATES OPERATE prospectively. Statutes of a State limiting the time within which actions in lier courts may be brought upon judgments of the ..."

4. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1907)
"As to the payment, does it make any difference in such a case whether the dues are paid after use of the two docks, or prospectively, and when both may ..."

5. A Treatise on Powers: With Supplement, Bringing the New Enactments and Cases by Henry Chance (1841)
"As to the Reservation or Limitation of Powers of Revocation, and of new Appointment onee for all prospectively. [1370.] As to general prospective powers of ..."

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