Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a terminative manner; absolutely; without regard to anything else.
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- adverb So as to
terminate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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'Oh -- ay, as a lad I knowed your part o 'the country very well,' he said terminatively.
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"And, Voss," said the tranter terminatively, "you keep house here till about half-past two; then heat the metheglin and cider in the warmer you'll find turned up upon the copper; and bring it wi 'the victuals to church-hatch, as th'st know."
Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school Thomas Hardy 1884
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"Oh -- ay, as a lad I knowed your part o 'the country very well," he said terminatively.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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Deity wherewith we have most of all to do, finally, terminatively to do, is single, is but one.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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