suspensivelyadv.
/səˈspɛnsᵻvli/, U.S. /səˈspɛnsᵻvli/ In a suspensive manner.† a. = suspensely adv. Obsolete.
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b. suspensively conditional, involving a suspensive condition: see suspensive adj. 4.
c. In the way of suspension or hanging; figurative in dependence on.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > [adverb] > dependently
pendently1603
dependently1646
suspensively1872
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adverb]
pendently1847
suspensively1872
1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. x. 413 The profoundnesse of this mysterie leads vs to wade thus softly and suspensiuely.
1818 H. T. Colebrooke Treat. Obligations & Contracts 212 If either the original or substituted engagement be suspensively conditional.
1872 H. Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 56 We become aerial creatures, resting suspensively on things above the world.
1872 H. Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 58 He begins to live suspensively on God.
Derivatives
suˈspensiveness n.
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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > quality or state of
pensileness1605
pensility1640
pendulosity1646
pendency1652
suspensiveness1816
1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall xii. 156 An illustrious robber, who..was suddenly checked in his career by means of a certain quality inherent in preparations of hemp, which, for the sake of perspicuity, I shall call suspensiveness.
1898 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. ii. 37 The level tone is plaintive..and suggests the idea of suspensiveness.
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