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adverb
Substantively  adv.  
1.
In a substantive manner; in substance; essentially.
2.
(Gram.) As a substantive, name, or noun; as, an adjective may be used substantively.





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"Substantively" Quotes from Famous Books



... easy to guess why Nash employed this Italian word instead of an English one. Lento means lazy, and though an adjective, it is used here substantively; the meaning, of course, is that the idle fellow who has no ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... could be Fair and yet not Fond,' are among the treasures of our verse; while the tragedies of Lord Stirling and Lord Brooke, and the sonnets of Lord Ancrum, are at least curious and interesting, if they are not substantively great. ...
— By-ways in Book-land - Short Essays on Literary Subjects • William Davenport Adams


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