Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a valid manner; so as to be alid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a valid manner; so as to be valid.
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- adverb In a
valid manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with validity; in a valid manner
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Examples
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A meaning category is the conceptual class, into which fit all the individual items that constitute the set of items that a word validly refers to, when we validly know the meaning of a word.
Introductory Survey of Objects of Cognition: Gelug Presentation 2006
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Thus, self-sufficiently knowable phenomena are defined as validly knowable phenomena that, when actually cognized (dngos-bzung), do not rely on actual cognition of or by something else.
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Now, to administer Baptism validly, that is, properly, everything must be done exactly as Our Lord intended and the Church teaches.
Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine Thomas L. Kinkead
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For an item to be truly existent means for it to have a truly existent conventional identity (tha-snyad-du yod-pa’i bdag) as “this” or “that” individual validly knowable object or as “this” or “that” individual, specific kind of validly knowable object.
The Validity and Accuracy of Cognition of the Two Truths in Gelug-Prasangika 2006
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But Popper and such (idealists such as Hume, Berkeley and Kant in philosophy,) do not admit the we can validly induct laws of cause and effect, much less historical processes.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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Do you mean to suggest that your views on who ought to sit on the Court would depend not on your actual views but upon what one could validly infer from available evidence suggesting what your views might be?
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Silly commenters …. validly rebuts the arguments of the commenters who disagreed w/your beloved physicist?
Think Progress » After warmest January in history, Vancouver airlifts in snow for Winter Olympics. 2010
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Would city police refuse to honor validly issued subpoenas to testify in court?
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"Amongst other matters, the arbitral tribunal found that the offtakers did not validly terminate their offtake agreements," Tata Steel said in a statement.
Tata Steel Gets $130 Million in Settlement Alex MacDonald 2011
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The "Shit Blows Up" fun of Jack's rampaging could even be quite validly deemed escapist; it's just that I try to subvert the consolation subtly within the episodes or through their relationships with the rest of the text, to seduce the reader into engaging with reality even when the fantasy is at its most sensationalist.
Essay Rant Thingy Hal Duncan 2009
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