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English
Etymology
From vacuous + -ly.
Adverb
vacuously (comparative more vacuously, superlative most vacuously)
- In a vacuous manner, lacking thought.
1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House:Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" […]
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 211:He scowled vacuously, keeping at bay a horrible enlightenment on the mechanism of effort, which must drive into being a resistance equal to itself.
- (logic) Because of being a vacuous truth.
The statement is vacuously true because P is false and P implies Q.
Translations
because of being a vacuous truth