casuistically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Using casuistry or casuistics.
adv
From the perspective of casuistics or casuistry.
Example Sentences
- "He approached the moral dilemma casuistically, not abstractly from first principles."
- "Those ideals are casuistically the best whose realisations lead to least number of other ideals sacrificed."
- "Rule-utilitarian arguments — arguments that proceed from the consequences of our moral rules rather than of our individual acts — are casuistically very powerful."
- "She would then be — casuistically, I suppose, and legally, without doubt — worse off than the seduced Isabella: for Isabella would have submitted to Angelo without consent of the will"
- "Critics may point out flaws in this story, which is casuistically vulnerable"
Etymology
Etymology tree English casuistic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English casuistically From casuistic + -ally.
Inflected Forms
more casuistically (comparative)
most casuistically (superlative)