Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a perfective manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a perfective manner.
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- adverb grammar In a
perfective manner or context.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her spirit and contribution to the stage resonates in many of todays performers, such as Diana Ross who deemed to play her life story but was not given the opportunity when Lynn Whitfield played her perfectively in an HBO performance that garnered her many accolades.
Woman Making History #54: Josephine Baker (What if No One's Watching?) 2006
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Reply Obj. 2: The bread and wine are materially several signs, yet formally and perfectively one, inasmuch as one refreshment is prepared therefrom.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Therefore, this sacrament is materially many, but formally and perfectively one.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Now to unite men to God perfectively belongs to Christ, through Whom men are reconciled to
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Moreover, they fulfill the office of mediator, not indeed principally and perfectively, but ministerially and dispositively: whence (Matt. 4: 11) it is said that
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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(Points: 4) perfectively competitive monopolistically competitive oligopolistic monopolistic
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(Points: 4) perfectively competitive monopolistically competitive oligopolistic monopolistic
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If the Genetically Engineered products are perfectively safe, then why not label the food products?
GEN News Highlights 2009
635479134 commented on the word perfectively
What's the difference between "perfectly" and "perfectively." I sense from the religious quotes there's a religious significance, but I'm not seeing it in the other examples.
July 6, 2011