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provisorily en · ADV

Etymology

From provisory + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a provisory manner; conditionally
   • The judgment by which the phænomenon is thus provisorily referred , is called an hypothesis ,a supposition a. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1859–1860, →OCLC:
   • to admit a doctrine provisorily

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