"pretensively" meaning in English

See pretensively in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Forms: more pretensively [comparative], most pretensively [superlative]
Etymology: From pretensive + -ly. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|pretensive|ly|id2=adverbial}} pretensive + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} pretensively (comparative more pretensively, superlative most pretensively)
  1. In a pretensive manner.
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pretensive",
        "3": "ly",
        "id2": "adverbial"
      },
      "expansion": "pretensive + -ly",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pretensive + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pretensively",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pretensively",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pretensively (comparative more pretensively, superlative most pretensively)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1876, Horace Bushnell, Sermons on Christ and His Salvation, page 263:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a pretensive manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-pretensively-en-adv-JihP5HRE",
      "links": [
        [
          "pretensive",
          "pretensive"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pretensively"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pretensive",
        "3": "ly",
        "id2": "adverbial"
      },
      "expansion": "pretensive + -ly",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pretensive + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pretensively",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pretensively",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pretensively (comparative more pretensively, superlative most pretensively)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1876, Horace Bushnell, Sermons on Christ and His Salvation, page 263:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a pretensive manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pretensive",
          "pretensive"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pretensively"
}

Download raw JSONL data for pretensively meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.