prescriptively
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6.9
- adverb
- /prɪˈskrɪptɪvli/
- Formal
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prescriptivamente
- Le Brun's text provided a means of depicting expression that is based not on an artist's direct observation (as had been encouraged by Alberti and Leonardo), but rather on his adherence to an established set of pictorial signs that were often followed prescriptively.
The question then becomes what is demanded of you prescriptively, what should you do if these two things are the case?
- The question then becomes what is demanded of you prescriptively, what should you do if these two things are the case?
Examples
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The second difference was teaching prescriptively based on results from diagnostic testing.
Academic text (1995) -
As a result, teachers can see the clear link between the assessment and the use of adaptations as prescriptively described on the IEP.
Academic text (2006) -
The question then becomes what is demanded of you prescriptively, what should you do if these two things are the case?
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Although they are told that they need to see language less prescriptively and more descriptively, the teachers are encouraged to share their ideas and feelings.
Academic text (1990) -
It also promotes a general inclination to treat students prescriptively rather than as individuals.
Academic text (1996) -
It speaks prescriptively to the ongoing importance of rebuilding state institutions in the present and future.
Academic text (2013) -
Prescriptively, stereotypes can have negative effects for women who behave in counter-stereotypic ways.
Academic text (2013) -
If you're using "Christian" prescriptively rather than descriptively, to say that you don't think there's a Biblical basis for it, then yeah, I agree with you.
Blog text (25) -
Prescriptively, this observation suggests that a feedback loop might be self-consciously intensified through public policies and institutional arrangements that, for example, encourage citizens to consider the consequences of the public spaces they inhabit and empower them to positively transform those spaces.
Academic text (2001) -
Teachers often instruct students prescriptively, outlining specific guidelines for completing assignments.
Antonyms
How Prescriptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
prescriptively = prescriptive (transparent) = prescribe + ive + ly
Formed regularly from the adjective 'prescriptive' with the productive adverbial suffix '-ly', preserving the adjective's meaning.
Etymology
Prescriptively comes from parts that mean 'before' (pre-) and 'write' (script), the same pieces you see in prescribe and script. So, to act prescriptively is to give rules beforehand and tell people how things should be done.