Meanings
adverbdeterminately (comparative more determinately, superlative most determinately)
comparative more determinately · superlative most determinately
- In a way that is determinate
If ‘aardvark lover’ has that syntactic structure, then it determinately means “lover of aardvarks.
2007 August 15, Wayne A. Davis, “Replies to Green, Szabó, Jeshion, and Siebel”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 137, number 3, →DOI
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