Committally

//kəˈmɪtəli// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a committal manner.

    "It is even a convention in some quarters (which I shall not follow) to use "I will do x" as an intentive and "I shall do x" as an indicative; or at any rate, less committally, "I will" where there is, as Fowler's Modern English Usage puts it, "an implication of intention, volition, or choice"."

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"It is even a convention in some quarters (which I shall not follow) to use "I will do x" as an intentive and "I shall do x" as an indicative; or at any rate, less committally, "I will" where there is, as Fowler's Modern English Usage puts it, "an implication of intention, volition, or choice"."

Etymology

From committal + -ly.

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