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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- prefix Inverse; inversely.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin, short for obversē, obversely, from Latin obversus, past participle of obvertere, to turn toward : ob-, toward, against (from ob, toward, against, before; see epi in Indo-European roots) + vertere, to turn; see versus.]
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