Distinctively
[dɪ'stɪŋktɪvli]
Definition
(adv.) in an identifiably distinctive manner; 'the distinctively conservative district of the county'.
Editor: Wallace--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) With distinction; plainly.
Edited by Dinah
Examples
- In this manner a good deal of capital and the energies of many prominent men in politics and business had been rallied distinctively to the support of arc lighting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One of the earliest known figures of a deity is that of a hippopotamus goddess, and so very distinctively African. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The fine grinding of cement clinker is distinctively Edisonian in both origin and application. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The distinctively human function is reason existing for the sake of beholding the spectacle of the universe. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But to value also means a distinctively intellectual act--an operation of comparing and judging--to valuate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Edison's work on conveyors during the period of his ore-concentrating labors was distinctively original, ingenious and far in advance of the times. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Since conformity is the aim, what is distinctively individual in a young person is brushed aside, or regarded as a source of mischief or anarchy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- When it is measured by tangible external products, and not by the achieving of a distinctively valuable experience, it becomes materialistic. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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