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adoptively, adv.|əˈdɒptɪvlɪ| [f. prec. + ly2.] In an adoptive manner; by way of adoption.
1844Maitland Dark Ages 482 For it is one thing to be so [i.e. one with God] adoptively, and another to be so substantially. 1844B. Thorpe ælfric's Hom. I. 259 God, the Father Almighty, has one Son naturally, and many adoptively [A. Sax. gewiscendlice]. |