Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an inferential manner; by way of inference.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb By way of inference; using inference.

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  • adverb With respect to, or by means of, inference

Etymologies

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inferential +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Senile atrophy is not uncommon, the atrophy resulting, as the name inferentially implies, from advancing age.

    Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886

  • The clunker smell test: Plainly put, their piece is the worst kind of ersatz "investigative" reporting: lots of heavy breathing and over-reaching conclusions drawn from selectively using, twisting or ignoring facts, relying on innuendo and suggestion, and mischaracterizing crucial elements of the story to inferentially allege an impropriety where none exists.

    Phil Trounstine: Why the ProPublica Remap Yarn Is Nonsense Phil Trounstine 2011

  • The clunker smell test: Plainly put, their piece is the worst kind of ersatz "investigative" reporting: lots of heavy breathing and over-reaching conclusions drawn from selectively using, twisting or ignoring facts, relying on innuendo and suggestion, and mischaracterizing crucial elements of the story to inferentially allege an impropriety where none exists.

    Phil Trounstine: Why the ProPublica Remap Yarn Is Nonsense Phil Trounstine 2011

  • The clunker smell test: Plainly put, their piece is the worst kind of ersatz "investigative" reporting: lots of heavy breathing and over-reaching conclusions drawn from selectively using, twisting or ignoring facts, relying on innuendo and suggestion, and mischaracterizing crucial elements of the story to inferentially allege an impropriety where none exists.

    Phil Trounstine: Why the ProPublica Remap Yarn Is Nonsense Phil Trounstine 2011

  • P A Nelson: If one is going to posit divine creation for one primordial cell, there's not a great difference inferentially in positing multiple such origins.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • The clunker smell test: Plainly put, their piece is the worst kind of ersatz "investigative" reporting: lots of heavy breathing and over-reaching conclusions drawn from selectively using, twisting or ignoring facts, relying on innuendo and suggestion, and mischaracterizing crucial elements of the story to inferentially allege an impropriety where none exists.

    Phil Trounstine: Why the ProPublica Remap Yarn Is Nonsense Phil Trounstine 2011

  • If one is going to posit divine creation for one primordial cell, there's not a great difference inferentially in positing multiple such origins.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • For countries featuring deficient rule of law and a record of judicial abuses, to receive a request from reputable voices of the international community to hold fair trials is, inferentially, the most flattering compliment.

    Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality 2010

  • For countries featuring deficient rule of law and a record of judicial abuses, to receive a request from reputable voices of the international community to hold fair trials is, inferentially, the most flattering compliment.

    Robert Amsterdam: Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality 2010

  • There is absolutely nothing, nothing at all, in this statement that is even implicitly or inferentially different than what he's been saying for the last two years.

    Obama Suggests He May "Continue To Refine" Iraq Policies 2009

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