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distinctively, adv.|dɪˈstɪŋktɪvlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a distinctive manner.
1. With distinguishing operation or effect; in a way that makes a distinction; so as to distinguish; separately, severally.
1610Mirr. Mag. 855 (R.) Her [Queen Elizabeth's] sweet tongue could speake distinctively Greek, Latin, Tuscane, Spanish, French, and Dutch. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1686 II. xxxiv. 492 To what end also doth he distinctively assign a peculiar dispensation of operations to the Father, of ministeries to the Son, of gifts to the Holy Ghost? 1797Monthly Mag. Jan. 52 He determined to blend, in a single tableau, all the different colourings of truth which he had long before pourtrayed distinctively. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 168 Contemplated distinctively in reference to formal (or abstract) truth, it is the Speculative Reason. 1833Chalmers Const. Man (1835) I. ii. 129 Ere we see clearly and distinctively. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iii. §38. 136 Not only..Facts..but also..what may be distinctively termed Truths, or technically Doctrines. 1863E. V. Neale Anal. Th. & Nat. 61 The individual rose has become to us one among many roses, each of which may be thought of as distinctively colored.
2. In a distinguishing manner; characteristically as distinct from others; peculiarly.
1871Freeman Hist. Ess. (1872) 37 If we can suppose a distinctively Saxon settlement in the north. 1873–4J. T. Moggridge Ants & Spiders Suppl. 168 The seeds of the distinctively spring and summer-flowering plants. 1881Sat. Rev. 23 July 101/1 There is nothing distinctively Christian..in Gothic architecture. 1885Clodd Myths & Dr. i. viii. 134 Legends and traditions..invested with a purity and majesty distinctively Hebrew.
¶3. ? Distinctly. Obs.
1632Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 155 (2. 3. 4. Fos.) Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not distinctively [Qq. intentiuely, Fo. 1 instinctiuely]. |