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  • adverb In a subjunctive manner.

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subjunctive +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Deliberation is expressed subjunctively; which is a speech proper to signify suppositions, with their consequences; as, If this be done, then this will follow; and differs not from the language of reasoning, save that reasoning is in general words, but deliberation for the most part is of particulars.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Deliberation is expressed ‘subjunctively, ’ which is a speech proper to signify suppositions, with their consequences: as, ‘if this be done, then this will follow, ’ and differs not from the language of reasoning, save that reasoning is in general words; but deliberation for the most part is of particulars.

    Chapter VI. Of the Interior Beginnings of Voluntary Motions, Commonly Called the Passions; and the Speeches by Which They Are Expressed 1909

  • Deliberation is expressed subjunctively; which is a speech proper to signify suppositions, with their consequences; as, If this be done, then this will follow; and differs not from the language of reasoning, save that reasoning is in general words, but deliberation for the most part is of particulars.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

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