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English
Etymology
affinitative + -ly
Adverb
affinitatively (comparative more affinitatively, superlative most affinitatively)
- (perhaps dated) In a manner than pertains to an affinity; familiarly; understandingly; similarly.
- 1874, "A Christian" (anonym), Commencement of the Second Christian Epoch - Volume 22, Villiam Moore & Co. - Printers, Caxlon Works, Beccles, Suffolk, page 11
- The coal, oxygen of the air affinitatively flies to the particles of pure carbon left behind.
- 1825, Alexander Tilloch, LL.D. & Richard Taylor, F.L.S., The Philosophical Magazine and Journal - Volume 65, Princeton University Press, page 372
- And I may now further observe, that every dichotomy of the tables, if viewed and taken with the root (or semi-dichotomy) from which it immediately proceeds, may be considered as a sort of triangular circle returning affinitatively into itself: and that the two further dichotomies issuing from each of its branches may be also considered as forming with it a still larger and broader-based triangular or pyramidal circle.
- 1951, David W. Taylor - Model Basin, Contribution to the Calculation of Turbulent Boundary Layers - Hydrodynamics, page 17
- Solutions in which the velocity profile along the Wall is only affinitatively distorted.
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