"descriptively" meaning in English

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      "form": "more descriptively",
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      "form": "most descriptively",
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          "ref": "1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 5",
          "text": "He snapped his fingers descriptively.",
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          "ref": "2004 October 14, Don Ringe, “Old English maþelian, mæþlan, mǣlan”, in J. H. W. Penney, editor, Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, Oxford University Press, page 427",
          "text": "Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear.",
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        "In a descriptive manner."
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "in a descriptive manner",
          "word": "descriptivament"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in a descriptive manner",
          "word": "kuvailevasti"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in a descriptive manner",
          "word": "deskriptiivisesti"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "in a descriptive manner",
          "word": "descritivamente"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in a descriptive manner",
          "word": "descriptivamente"
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  "word": "descriptively"
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      "form": "more descriptively",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "most descriptively",
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          "text": "Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear.",
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "in a descriptive manner",
      "word": "descriptivament"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in a descriptive manner",
      "word": "kuvailevasti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in a descriptive manner",
      "word": "deskriptiivisesti"
    },
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      "sense": "in a descriptive manner",
      "word": "descritivamente"
    },
    {
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      "sense": "in a descriptive manner",
      "word": "descriptivamente"
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  "word": "descriptively"
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