constitutively love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a constitutive manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a constitutive manner.

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  • adverb in a constitutive manner
  • adverb biochemistry at a constant rate regardless of physiological demand

Etymologies

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constitutive +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Of all the arts, architecture is the closest constitutively to the economic, with which, in the form of commissions and land values, it has a virtually unmediated relationship.

    Ballardian » A Near Future: Nic Clear’s Tribute to JG Ballard 2009

  • NC: I started my postgraduate dissertation in 1989 with a quote from Frederic Jameson: ‘Of all the arts, architecture is the closest constitutively to the economic, with which, in the form of commissions and land values, it has a virtually unmediated relationship.’

    Ballardian » 'Architectures of the Near Future': An Interview with Nic Clear 2008

  • Given its discursive nature, philosophy is constitutively cut-off from such an absolute grounding.

    Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg [Novalis] Gjesdal, Kristin 2009

  • So far these are attempts to understand the value of friendship to the individual in terms of the way friendship contributes, instrumentally or constitutively, to something else that is valuable to the individual.

    Friendship Helm, Bennett 2009

  • For example this sort of disjunctivist may hold that the intentional content of a veridical perception is constitutively dependent on mind-independent objects, while the intentional content a hallucination is not.

    Petty Injuries 2009

  • An important question is whether the impact is merely causal, or whether perception in one modality is somehow constitutively tied to other modalities.

    Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009

  • The epithelia secrete them constitutively into the thin layer of fluid that lies above the apical surface of the epithelium but below the viscous mucous layer.

    Vitamin D and influenza | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • According to the naïve realist, a visual experience of an apple seems to its subject to be constitutively dependent on the presence of the apple.

    Petty Injuries 2009

  • I suppose it's always hard to cause another person pain, but when that person is someone you truly think is fantastic, who has been a perfect boyfriend, and is even--in all the usual and some unusual senses--a great "catch," it's hard, too, not to believe that you're crazy or at least ungrateful and possibly constitutively dissatisfied.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008

  • I suppose it's always hard to cause another person pain, but when that person is someone you truly think is fantastic, who has been a perfect boyfriend, and is even--in all the usual and some unusual senses--a great "catch," it's hard, too, not to believe that you're crazy or at least ungrateful and possibly constitutively dissatisfied.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Flavia 2008

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