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Etymology

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From perfective +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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perfectively (not comparable)

  1. In a perfective manner or context
    • 2002, Robert Pasnau, Norman Kretzmann, Eleonore Stump, The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts:
      From these two claims I make the following evident argument: God would not have seen anything unless he had possessed those things, but to possess them only perfectively and not in a representational mode would not have sufficed to have cognized them.