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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

accessively en · ADV · etymology 1

Etymology

Etymology tree English accessive Middle English -ly English -ly English accessively From accessive + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a manner relating to access or accessibility.
    • And second, we must not allow our examples to lead us into concluding or assuming that our doxastic programming only functions obstructively; much of it also functions accessively. Certain belief components in our programming make certain aspects of reality more reliably accessible to us than otherwise they would be; and some belief components in our programming make certain aspects of reality accessible to us which otherwise would not be accessible to us at all. 2006, Nicholas Wolterstorff, “Historicizing the Belief-Forming Self”, in Thomas M. Crisp, Matthew Davidson, David Vander Laan, editors, Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga, →ISBN, pages 128–9:

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more accessively Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most accessively Degree=Sup lexicographic

accessively en · ADV · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, misspelling) Misspelling of excessively.