| 单词 |
decisively |
| 释义 |
decisively, adv.|dɪˈsaɪsɪvlɪ|
[-ly2.]
In a decisive manner.
1. Conclusively; so as to decide the question.
1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 121 The Authority of Synods in matters of Faith is..declarative, and not decisively judiciall. 1756Watson in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 491, I..cannot determine decisively about it, till the whole be cleared by digging. 1854Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) 5 Seneca disposed rapidly and decisively of the objection.
2. With decision; unhesitatingly, resolutely.
1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 129 Major Cartwright has expressed himself as decisively, and with as much warmth, against [etc.]. 1870Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. II. xii. 95 It was now time..to act decisively.
3. In a manner beyond question or doubt; unmistakeably, decidedly.
1792Young Trav. France 257 It is fine sun-shine weather, decisively warmer than ever felt in England at this season. 1800Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) I. 126 Decisively Calvinistic. 1893British Weekly 8 June 105/5 Poe is decisively the first of American poets. |
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