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vacuously en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English vacuous Middle English -ly English -ly English vacuously From vacuous + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a vacuous manner, lacking thought.
   • Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" […] 1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House:
   • He scowled vacuously, keeping at bay a horrible enlightenment on the mechanism of effort, which must drive into being a resistance equal to itself. 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 211:
2. Because of being a vacuous truth.
   • The statement is vacuously true because P is false and P implies Q.

Forms

Translations (1)

pl w próżni (because of being a vacuous truth)