Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By way of petitio principii, or begging the question.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb rare By way of begging the question; by an assumption.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb By way of
begging the question ; by anassumption .
Etymologies
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petitionary + -ly
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