Lexic.us

Definition of Decisively

1. Adverb. With firmness. "`I will come along,' she said decisively"

2. Adverb. With finality; conclusively. "The voted settled the argument decisively"

3. Adverb. In an indisputable degree. "The Fisher Act of 1918 decisively raised their status and pay"

Definition of Decisively

1. Adverb. In a decisive manner. ¹

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Definition of Decisively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decisively

decision theory decision tree decision trees decisional decisioned decisioning decisionism decisionist decisionists decisionmaker

decisionmakers decisionmaking decisions decisive decisive factor decisively (current term) decisiveness decisivenesses decisory decistere

decisteres decitabine decitizenize decitizenized decitizenizes decitizenizing decivilise decivilised decivilises decivilising

Literary usage of Decisively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Deronda had now noticed more decisively than in their former interview a difficulty of breathing, which he thought must be a sign of consumption. ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... for the report bad decisively confirmed the protest of churchmen against the jurisdiction of the privy council. The existing judgments, which ..."

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