Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an accumulative manner; by heaping: in heaps.
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- adverb In an
accumulative manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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The idea is that we are all, accumulatively, the Body of Christ.
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The MSM is covering the Iranian protesters far more than those hundreds of thousands of American protesters I was at 6 different anti invasion marches millions accumulatively.
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Each element, each clause, is given new potential instead of functioning accumulatively.
Gertrude Stein greenintegerblog 2008
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If you want to read a compendium of religiously engendered "atrocities" read Christopher Hitchens's superb book, God Is Not Great, which reminds you of them in accumulatively shocking detail.
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Exercise: 1hr 20 mins of brisk walking (accumulatively)
joyous freakymandy 2004
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I should demonstrate how the ostensibly plain prose of his story has an accumulatively poetic effect, and I should-
Pause 2004
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I should demonstrate how the ostensibly plain prose of his story has an accumulatively poetic effect, and I should-
Archive 2004-04-01 2004
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It was so refreshing .. and then go home feeling so hyper and started to talk to everyone and I talked for about half an hour accumulatively to my mom and about 3-4 hours with my elder brother and I realised how alike we were ... after so many years!
difference freakymandy 2004
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The U.S. is our number one trading partner and number one, accumulatively, our number one source of investments.
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I consider that my seeing the man those years glimpsd for me, beyond all else, that inner spirit and formthe unquestionable charm and vivacity, but intrinsic sophistication and artificialitycrystallizing rapidly upon the English stage and literature at and after Shaksperes time, and coming on accumulatively through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the beginning, fifty or forty years ago, of those disintegrating, decomposing processes now authoritatively going on.
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