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Etymology

Etymology tree English casuistic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English casuistically From casuistic + -ally.

Meanings

1. Using casuistry or casuistics.
   • He approached the moral dilemma casuistically, not abstractly from first principles.
2. (qualifier:domain) From the perspective of casuistics or casuistry.
   • Rule-utilitarian arguments — arguments that proceed from the consequences of our moral rules rather than of our individual acts — are casuistically very powerful. 1978, Philip E. Devine, The ethics of homicide:
   • Critics may point out flaws in this story, which is casuistically vulnerable 2006, Inazo Nitob, Bushido, the Soul of Japan, page 22:
   • Those ideals are casuistically the best whose realisations lead to least number of other ideals sacrificed. 1967, Satyananda, World ethics:
   • She would then be — casuistically, I suppose, and legally, without doubt — worse off than the seduced Isabella: for Isabella would have submitted to Angelo without consent of the will 1987, Harold Bloom, William Shakespeare's measure for measure:

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Translations (4)

pl kazuistycznie (domain) · ca casuísticament (domain) · pl kazuistycznie (manner) · ca casuísticament (manner)