Meanings
- not comparableNot preferentially.
Those exemptions apply nonpreferentially to all religions.
2017 September, Edward A. Zelinsky, Taxing the Church: Religion, Exemptions, Entanglement, and the Constitution, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 220, →ISBN2 more examples
If government chose to support religion generally, if^([sic – meaning it]) must do so nonpreferentially.
2000 February, Frank Guliuzza, Over the Wall: Protecting Religious Expression in the Public Square, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 126, →ISBNThe three species of sunbirds changed from specializing on clumps with large numbers of closed flowers to visiting flowers nonpreferentially at different relative frequencies of unopened flowers.
1980, Douglass H. Morse, Behavioral Mechanisms in Ecology, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 59, →ISBNSynonyms: unpreferentially
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbNot preferentially.
Origin
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