单词 | reactively |
释义 | reactivelyadv. In a reactive manner; with, as, or by (a) reaction. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > [adverb] > operating in return reactively1805 reactionally1856 1805 J. Foster Ess. i. ii. 30 The living world..is re-actively throwing on him various moral influences and infections. 1860 A. L. Windsor Ethica v. 285 A very irritable temper, that bore him reactively into close relationship with a few. 1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 42/3 The Franco years, during which he transfixed Spain, ruling not actively but reactively, placing an inexhaustible number of thumbs in the crumbling dike. 2003 Isis 94 501/1 How historians should weight and evaluate evidence, ever-prepared reactively to reconsider former positions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1805 |
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