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POSSESSIVELY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does possessively mean?
• POSSESSIVELY (adverb)
The adverb POSSESSIVELY has 1 sense:
1. in a possessive manner
Familiarity information: POSSESSIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a possessive manner
Context example:
he was sleeping, one arm flung possessively across his wife
Pertainym:
possessive (desirous of owning)
Context examples
She came in with such a proprietary haste and looked around so possessively at the furniture that I wondered if she lived here.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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