univocally
- adverb
- /juːˈnɪvəˌkli/
- Formal
:
univocamente
- When the law was clarified, it applied univocally to everyone without exception.
Examples
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In the meantime, molecular-biological and epidemiological studies have been published that disprove the myth univocally.
Academic text (2013) -
Both thinkers, in other words, agreed with Scotus, against St. Thomas, that "being" is to be predicated univocally of God and the creatures.
Academic text (1991) -
God becomes a kind of cosmic tyrant who is described univocally and who enacts arbitrary control over every minor detail of the world.
Blog text (16) -
(n8) "We cannot apply univocally to it human nature any of the patterns of thought which we generally use to define relationships between beings in this world."
Academic text (2008) -
No matter how difficult his journey or how doubtful his success, how morally uncertain or how vulnerable to temptation, the medieval hero facing a thematically colored knight remains univocally constituted as a self.
Academic text (1993) -
In the tradition derived from Scholasticism, faith refers either analogically to the power of faith (virtue fide) or univocally to the explicit act of faith (actus fide).
Academic text (1991) -
It was, however, harder to see how quantity could be applied univocally in this case to both these qualities and the substance, as Suárez pointed out in DM XL, sec. 8, art. 10.
Academic text (2016) -
The instructions were written univocally, leaving no room for confusion or misinterpretation.
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The committee stated their decision univocally to ensure all members understood the outcome.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
In a way that leaves no doubt
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6.9
In a clear way that leaves no doubt
35
6.5
In a clear, certain way without any doubt
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4.1
In a very clear way that people cannot mistake
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5.5
Clearly so people understand it in only one way
Antonyms
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word univocally comes from uni- 'one' and vocal 'voice', like the common word vocal. So to speak univocally is to give a single clear meaning or to speak 'with one voice', leaving no doubt.