Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a qualified manner; with qualification or limitation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In the way of qualification; with modification or qualification.
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- adverb With
qualification ;conditionally .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The economic disaster allows for a qualifiedly happy ending.
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When you do find celebrities & public figures expressing or admitting to conservative views, this tends to be done... sotto voce, apologetically, qualifiedly, defensively.
A terribly painful conversation. Ann Althouse 2009
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More pointedly, would the dispensation of left- and thick-libertarianism (insofar as you are a guardian thereof) allow one to openly (if qualifiedly) defend stasis, perhaps arbitrary rules, discrimination, and exclusion, when these are deployed for purposes of defending partial, particular goods and where other alternative goods are free to establish and preserve themselves in other ‘places’ by like means?
Hoverbikes 2009
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Thus the practise of giving office to sons was partially and qualifiedly renewed.
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And hence it is, that the clause is so worded, as really to authorize the general government to impose a duty of ten dollars on every foreigner who comes into a State to become a citizen, whether he comes _absolutely_ free, or _qualifiedly_ so, as a servant; although this is contrary to the design of the framers, and the duty was only meant to extend to the importation of _slaves_.
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We may also accept statements which are only qualifiedly true; as, "You can break an egg, but not a stone."
The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Lewis Madison Terman 1916
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Both requests were qualifiedly refused on the ground that England wished to be free to continue negotiations with Germany for the purpose of averting the war.
History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War Richard Joseph Beamish 1895
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"Thank you, sir," said Mr. Duncan, and "Thank you, sir," said Mr. Shack; then the captain said other pleasant things, which brought other pleasant responses, and the breakfast passed off so agreeably that Mr. Todd, in spite of the soul-felt yearning for a smoke inspired by the cigars in the mouths of the others, felt the influence of the enthusiasm and bestowed his blessing -- qualifiedly -- on the enterprise.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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We do not catch the significance of the fact that the soul outgrows the growth and outlives the vigor of the body, which is not true in trees; revealing its majestic properties as a force independent and qualifiedly sovereign.
Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876
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Masonry but qualifiedly identical with the Mysteries, 624-l.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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