brutely

English

Etymology

brute +‎ -ly

Adverb

brutely (comparative more brutely, superlative most brutely)

  1. In a rude or violent manner.
    • 2002, William P. Alston, Realism and antirealism‎:
      McDowell's paradigm for such a coercive relationship of world to mind is any account in which the world's impact upon us is brutely causal and that brute causal relationship is taken to have epistemic significance.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “brutely”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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