determinately

Example Sentences

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He lived quietly and determinately outside the literary mainstream.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023

The big question is whether or not Google's date-intensive method is determinately limited in some way.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2011

For, all these years, determinately and of set purpose, defiant of every better impulse, he had hardened his heart against her.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas

Now, it is not in the designer's power determinately to vary degrees and places of darkness, but it is altogether in his power to vary in determined directions his degrees of light.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin, John

But sometimes, especially when a taught strain has been held on the line, the whale continues to press so determinately into the depths of the ocean that it dies by a process similar to drowning.

From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by Scoresby, William