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adverbpretensively (comparative more pretensively, superlative most pretensively)
comparative more pretensively · superlative most pretensively
- In a pretensive manner.
Let us not be too much taken, my friends, by the typology in which our gospel is here and there so feebly and pretensively dressed — the low perceptions, and the short culture, always putting their cheap honors and ornaments upon it.
1876, Horace Bushnell, Sermons on Christ and His Salvation, page 263
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APA
pretensively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pretensively
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“pretensively.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pretensively. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pretensively,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pretensively.
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