associationally

comparative more associationally · superlative most associationally

1. In an associational manner.

   By no means can we regard this stratum as associationally exclusive, especially with respect to that immediately below; but by the same token the stratum ranked between .335 and .435 is not associationally closed either.

   1965, Michael Garfield Smith, Stratification in Grenada, Univ of California Press, page 71

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