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  • adverb In a vocative way.

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vocative +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Mettrie's L'Homme machine (1747) that the idea pro - vocatively epitomized by its title was at last affirmed as the basis and focus of a coherent philosophical position.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

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