preclusivelyadv.
/prᵻˈkluːsᵻvli/, U.S. /priˈklusəvli/, /prəˈklusəvli/ In a manner that precludes something.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [adverb]
preventingly?1567
preventively1694
preclusively1695
1695 Whether Parl. be not Dissolved 38 Preclusively from all legal Capacity and Possibility of borrowing a Duration and Continuance..from the Life of any other.
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Preclusively, with hindrance by some anticipation.
1857 G. Lunt Three Eras New Eng. ii. 84 The limited degree of general enlightenment..not certainly complete..but preclusively confined very much within the range of the ordinary necessities and powers and the absolute requirements of life.
1912 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 9 385 Specific habits formed in mastering charcoal often act preclusively when the student attempts to paint.
1966 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 25 Jan. Here in January, 1966, the NEA had zeroed in its discussion preclusively on rightwingism.
1996 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 82 1637/1 The Truman administration alone showed interest in Indian manganese and monazite sand, but its efforts to buy these strategic items preclusively, to keep them away from the Communist bloc, stretches beyond recognition the claim that the Americans sought an ‘open door’ in India.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1695- servile fear
- servile habit
- servile war
- servile work
- servilely
- servileness
- servilenesses
- serviler
- set store or price by
- set table
- set teeth on edge
- set text
- set the agenda
- set the ball rolling
- set the bar
- set the case
- set the clock back
- set the dice upon
- set the edge of
- set the etc a watering
- set the eyes at flow
- set the fine of
- set the hare's head against the goose-giblet
- set the hare's head against the goosegiblet
- set the hare's head foot against the goose-giblet