Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an adventitious or extrinsic manner; accidentally.
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- adverb in an
adventitious manner;sporadically .
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Examples
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Police malfeasance adventitiously preserved her from a disconfirming &, I suspect, unwelcome conclusion.
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Free to adhere to or reject what is known, human beings cannot be coerced by attempted external pressure or used as a means by others without prejudice to the inviolable truth in which they share innately through their participation in the light of being and which they attain adventitiously through the direct perception that unfolds determined truths to their intellectual gaze.
Antonio Rosmini Cleary, Denis 2001
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The lowest percentages of all are in the case where both parents are adventitiously deaf and neither has deaf relatives: 0.7 and 0.3.
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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From three-fifths to two-thirds of the cases of deafness are caused adventitiously -- by accident or disease.
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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But one day all this admirable monotony came to an end quite adventitiously, and events came treading on each other's heels.
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On the one hand, when one or both of the parents are adventitiously deaf, the percentage of marriages resulting in deaf children is 5.6, and the percentage of deaf children is 4.2; when both parents are so, the percentages are lower: 3.5 and 2.3.
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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When both are adventitiously deaf and both have deaf relatives, the percentages are 17.5 and 9.6.
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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The percentages rise when one parent is adventitiously deaf, and the other congenitally: 8.1 and 6.5.
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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He expresses the unalloyed sensibility of an artist in terms of delicious contemporary life and gives us, adventitiously, romance.
Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922
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In doing so he may, adventitiously, throw light on something more interesting than the past; he may adumbrate the outline of the coming movement.
Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922
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December 2, 2006