casuistically

comparative more casuistically · superlative most casuistically

1. mannerUsing casuistry or casuistics.

   He approached the moral dilemma casuistically, not abstractly from first principles.

2. domainFrom the perspective of casuistics or casuistry.

   Critics may point out flaws in this story, which is casuistically vulnerable

   2006, Inazo Nitob, Bushido, the Soul of Japan, page 22

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   Those ideals are casuistically the best whose realisations lead to least number of other ideals sacrificed.

   1967, Satyananda, World ethics

   Rule-utilitarian arguments — arguments that proceed from the consequences of our moral rules rather than of our individual acts — are casuistically very powerful.

   1978, Philip E. Devine, The ethics of homicide

   She would then be — casuistically, I suppose, and legally, without doubt — worse off than the seduced Isabella: for Isabella would have submitted to Angelo without consent of the will

   1987, Harold Bloom, William Shakespeare's measure for measure