majoritively

adv — 2 senses

majoritively

adv

Etymology From majoritive + -ly.

1

By means of a majority.

  • The senate voted majoritively to pass the bill.
  • An alternative approach would be to create a board of mental health professionals and lawyers who would majoritively decide consent issues.1982, Lisa Robbin Grossman, Capacity of schizophrencis to give informed consent:
2

Proscribed Consisting of more than half (50%); predominantly.

  • It is the imagination that is majoritively full of bad images and makes us anxious and restricted in our abilities to choose.1973, Brian P. Hall, Maury Smith, Value clarification as learning process: a handbook for religious educators:
  • Segal tried to make a case for identifying the redshifts predicted by the conformal group with the redshifts of the galaxies, denying that the latter are majoritively Doppler shifts due to the expansion of the Universe.1980, Paul S. Wesson, Gravity, particles, and astrophysics: a review of modern theories of gravity and G-variability, and their relation to elementary particle physics and astrophysics:

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