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- adverb In a
vocative way.
Etymologies
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vocative + -ly
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Examples
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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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