restrictively en · ADV
Etymology
Etymology tree English restrictive Middle English -ly English -ly English restrictively From restrictive + -ly.
Meanings
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In a restrictive manner.
Professor Fite, in The Platonic Legend, deprecates earlier idealization, and finds Plato to be an aristocrat, something of a snob, and the advocate of a restrictively organized society.
1974: Plato (author) and Desmond Lee (translator), The Republic (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; →ISBN), Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more restrictively | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most restrictively | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |