creativelyadv.

1713 tr. P. Poiret Divine Œconomy I. vi. 87 Why shou'd it [sc. the Divine Conception] not be able to express outwardly, creaturely or creatively [Fr. créativement], (if you had rather) this its inward Disposition?

1814 F. Burney Wanderer II. iii. xxi. 29 The general laws of established society.., though they may be ameliorated, changed, or reformed, by experience,..or by genius, creatively anticipating the future, can never be wholly reversed.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 4 That is in all cases the primary thing for him, and creatively determines all the rest.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. iii. 212 All in vain doth Speech Fatigue itself, creatively to build up forms.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 27 June 2/2 The use of a name which the world has agreed to consider creatively typical... Goldsmith's ‘Tony Lumpkin’ is immortal as perfectly expressing in name the character.

1930 Proc. Brit. Acad. 16 309 If any one ever read (in the current phrase) ‘creatively’, it was he [sc. Chaucer].

1946 G. Vann Divine Pity iv. 56 You are meant..to be able henceforth to contribute actively and creatively to the family life of the Church and of the world.

1991 P. Theroux Chicago Loop x. 133 How creatively he had written those personal ads, with all the loaded words winking in those few lines.