determinately

determinately

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English determinate
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English determinately

    From determinate + -ly.

    Adverb

    determinately (comparative more determinately, superlative most determinately)

    1. In a way that is determinate
      • 2007 August 15, Wayne A. Davis, “Replies to Green, Szabó, Jeshion, and Siebel”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 137, number 3, →DOI:
        If ‘aardvark lover’ has that syntactic structure, then it determinately means “lover of aardvarks.
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