Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an obverse form or manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an obverse manner.
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- adverb In an
obverse manner.
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Examples
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Mr Meikle gets most of his work from North Lanarkshire council, his North Lanarkshire builder friends obversely gain an awful lot of council building work from South Lanarkshire council...
Climate Camp Jeff 2009
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Your experience obversely was quite different from mine, to then assume a colleague in a slimier field is therefor is some a 3rd world retard is this why the climate change guys are wining.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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This is true of obversely true of me and the political right.
"Oh gee, I can't figure out what I think. Don't pick on me by asking that question! That's a gotcha question!" Ann Althouse 2007
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But it seems reasonable that, if people must want to get well in order to get well, then obversely, something evil that they want accounts for their getting or staying sick.
The borderline between spirit and psyche Mike L 2005
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But it seems reasonable that, if people must want to get well in order to get well, then obversely, something evil that they want accounts for their getting or staying sick.
Archive 2005-08-01 Mike L 2005
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It is doing all it can to assimilate substances of the soil and substances of the air, and sunshine, too, into tree-substance: obversely it is rejecting or excluding or disregarding that which it cannot assimilate.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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However, obversely, by the argument from silence we dare not infer, as some do, that the king considered carnal intercourse with a maiden as entirely right.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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First, by the use of definitions; second, by repeating the proposition either directly or obversely, adding something to the thought by each repetition; third, by enumerating particulars which form the ground for the statement; fourth, by selecting an instance which fairly illustrates the proposition; fifth, by the use of comparisons and analogies.
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And, obversely, having concluded energy to be indestructible, we can plainly see that in any particular cases of its manifestation in sequence-phenomena, the unconditional resemblance between effects due to similar causes which is formulated by the law of causation is merely the direct expression of the fact which we had previously concluded.
A Candid Examination of Theism George John Romanes 1871
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In other words, both subjectivity and ejectivity are only known under the condition of being isolated from objectivity; which, obversely considered, means that the matter in motion here concerned is temporarily separated off from the rest of the objective world, in such wise that it forms a distinct system of its own.
Mind and Motion and Monism George John Romanes 1871
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