Perfectively
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a perfective manner or context not-comparable
"From these two claims I make the following evident argument: God would not have seen anything unless he had possessed those things, but to possess them only perfectively and not in a representational mode would not have sufficed to have cognized them."
Example
More examples"From these two claims I make the following evident argument: God would not have seen anything unless he had possessed those things, but to possess them only perfectively and not in a representational mode would not have sufficed to have cognized them."
Etymology
From perfective + -ly.
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