Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a disjunctive manner; by disjunction

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

  • adverb In a disjunctive manner; separately.

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  • adverb In a disjunctive manner.

Etymologies

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disjunctive +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Two senses are given of this, which I think are both to be taken in disjunctively.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • Its prose furls, disjunctively connects, refuses all manner of numbing faux realism, unconscious confession, myopic perspective, it provokes more than soothes.

    Avant-lyric Lemon Hound 2008

  • Its prose furls, disjunctively connects, refuses all manner of numbing faux realism, unconscious confession, myopic perspective, it provokes more than soothes.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • And that is not a sufficient solution which is proposed; namely, that either the regal dominion, or some lower kind of government, are disjunctively promised; and that from the time when the kingdom was destroyed, the scribes remained in authority.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • A complex syllogism, having for its major premiss a conjunctive proposition with more than one antecedent, or more than one consequent, or both, which (antecedent or consequent) the minor premiss disjunctively affirms or denies.

    Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

  • To deny one member is to affirm the rest, either simply or disjunctively; but from affirming any member nothing follows.

    Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

  • For perhaps you do not quite understand propositions which are stated disjunctively.

    The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • The first child in each set is thinking disjunctively; the second has his facts organized into definite relationships.

    Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1922

  • The [Greek: kai] in the phrase [Greek: rh_eta kai aporr_eta] (or [Greek: arr_eta]) cannot be taken disjunctively here, when it is always conjunctive in this phrase elsewhere, the whole phrase being virtually equivalent to 'everything whatever'.

    The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

  • The world it represents as a collection, some parts of which are conjunctively and others disjunctively related.

    A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876

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