disjunctive
adjective
serving or tending to disjoin; separating; dividing; distinguishing.
disjunctively
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a word derived from
disjunctive.
Example Sentences
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The first child in each set is thinking disjunctively; the second has his facts organized into definite relationships.
From Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The design of the hand is uniformly the same with our tribes, whether it be used disjunctively or alone, or connected with the arm alone, or with the whole body.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by John L. Stephens
It was amended so as to read collectively only, and not disjunctively.
From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. Warburton
What inflection should be given to members of sentences connected disjunctively?
From 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by B. A. Hathaway
Whenever two or more pronouns of different persons, and of the singular number, follow each other disjunctively, the question of concord arises.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
