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Princeton's WordNet

  1. restrictivelyadverb

    in a restrictive manner

    "this relative clause is used restrictively"

Wiktionary

  1. restrictivelyadverb

    In a restrictive manner.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Restrictivelyadverb

    With limitation.

    Etymology: from restrictive.

    All speech, tending to the glory of God or the good of man, is aright directed; which is not to be understood so restrictively, as if nothing but divinity, or the necessary concerns of human life, may lawfully be brought into discourse. Government of the Tongue.

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  1. restrictively

    Restrictively refers to something being done in a limited, confined, or narrow way, preventing freedom or progress. It involves imposing constraints or limitations on someone's activities, behaviors, expressions or capabilities. It can also apply to the manner in which a term or a condition is described where it is narrowly or specifically defined.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of restrictively in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of restrictively in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of restrictively in a Sentence

  1. Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner:

    It's important that every country on the Balkan route acts more restrictively, a backlog on the Slovenian side... cannot be ruled out.

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