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Meaning of predictingly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

In a predicting manner.

Examples

“Apollo. [Predictingly.] Yet assuredly thou wilt relax, although thou art mighty stubborn: such a man will come to the house of Phérës, Eurýstheus having sent him after a chariot of horses from the wintry regions of Thrace, who in fact, after being-received-a-guest in this house of Admétus, shall by force take this woman away from thee: and there will not be any obligation to thee from us,—but nevertheless thou wilt do this, and wilt be hated by me.”
“I remained sitting in thought, there came from out the far wood of Vollraz something white; it was a rider upon a white horse; the animal looked like a spirit, his soft canter sounded to me predictingly;”
“We will add what we said predictingly on this very subject in our Number for June 1837, as it expresses our opinion still; only unhappily confirmed by recent experience.”
“The time came for the “traitors,” the “heady,” the “high-minded,” the “proud” of whom Paul predictingly spake to the evangelist at Ephesus.”
“Of Christ Isaiah said predictingly: “There is no beauty in him, nor comeliness; and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him: despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity; and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not. . . . We have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted” (Is 53:2-4, Douay).”
“Sir, you are a prophet. Have you ever before been so predictingly on target?”
“[…]means for predictingly calculating a gazing position of said observer based on said moving velocity and said moving direction.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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